Thomas Hervey (other)
Thomas Hervey may refer to * Thomas Hervey (politician) (1699–1775), English writer and member of parliament * Thomas Hervey (landowner) (1625–1693), landowner and member of parliament *Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), Scottish poet See also *Thomas Harvey (other) Thomas Harvey may refer to: * Thomas Harvey (Royal Navy officer) (1775–1841), British Royal Naval officer * Thomas Harvey (North Carolina governor) (1668–1699), colonial governor of North Carolina * Thomas Arnold Harvey (1878–1966), Irish sp ...

Thomas Hervey (politician)
Thomas Hervey (20 January 1699 – 1775), of Bond Street, London, was an English pamphleteer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1733 to 1747. He became embroiled with the wife of a neighbour who left her husband, and the ensuing dispute brought him to the brink of madness. He was noted for his eccentric open letters. Life Hervey was the second son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, MP and his second wife Elizabeth Felton, daughter of Sir Thomas Felton, 4th Baronet of Playford, Suffolk. He was educated at Westminster School from 1712 to 1717 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 10 May 1717 aged 17. He was taken away from Oxford to study law at Lincoln's Inn where he was admitted on 17 February 1720. He was thus denied what he desired, a post in the army; and gave himself up to drink, with the result that, as his allowance from his father was only £120 per annum, he ‘many, many times wanted a dinner.’ At an early age he was engaged in two duels, ...
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Thomas Hervey (landowner)
Sir Thomas Hervey (1625 – 27 May 1694) was an English Commissioner of the Royal Navy, landed gentleman, and Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds. Life Hervey was born in 1625, the third son of Sir William Hervey (1585–1660) of Ickworth, Suffolk, by his marriage in 1612 to Susan Jermyn, a daughter of Sir Robert Jermyn. George Edward Cokayne, Vicary Gibbs, Lord Howard de Walden, eds., '' The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', vol. VI (Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), p. 516 On 3 April 1641, aged fifteen, Hervey was admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge, as a pensioner, but did not take a degree. He became a Justice of the Peace for Suffolk, an Alderman of the corporation of Bury St Edmunds, and from 1664 to 1668 was a Commissioner of the Royal Navy. In his role at the Navy Board, Hervey held a political appointment and in practice did very little, like the other Commi ...
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Thomas Kibble Hervey
Thomas Kibble Hervey (4 February 1799 – 27 February 1859) was a Scottish-born poet and critic. He rose to be the Editor of the ''Athenaeum'', a leading British literary magazine in the 19th century. Youth Thomas Kibble Hervey was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and brought up in Manchester, England, from 1802 or 1803, where he was educated at Manchester Grammar School. He entered Caius College, Cambridge in 1822, but migrated to Trinity College the following year. He was articled to a firm of Manchester solicitors and studied for the bar, but was not called. Literary work While at Cambridge he began a lengthy career as a leading contributor to the ''Athenaeum'' in 1828, and published ''Australia, a Poem'' (1824) and ''Prometheus'' (1832). He later edited ''Friendship's Offering'' (1826–1827) and ''The Amaranth'' (1839), contributed to annuals, and edited the ''Athenaeum'' (23 May 1846 – December 1853). His other works included ''The Poetical Sketch Book'' (1829), ...
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