Edward Jervis Jervis, 2nd Viscount St Vincent (1 April 1767 – 25 September 1859) was an English peer.
Early life
Jervis was born Edward Jervis Ricketts, the second son of William Henry Ricketts and Mary Jervis. Mary Jervis was the daughter of Swynfen Jervis, Rector of
Meaford, Staffordshire
Meaford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stone Rural, in the Borough of Stafford, Stafford district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It lies at the junction of the A34 road (England), A34 and A51 roads, north of Stone, Staffordshire, ...
and the sister of
Admiral of the Fleet
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It is also a generic ter ...
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent ( ; 9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was a British Royal Navy admiral and politician. He served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the Seven ...
. He inherited the
viscountcy of St Vincent in 1823 by special remainder on the death of his uncle and changed his name by Royal Licence to Edward Jervis Jervis. Jervis resided at the family seats of
Meaford Hall and
Little Aston Hall
Little Aston Hall is a Georgian country house in Little Aston, Staffordshire, England.
The original hall building is Grade II listed. It was constructed around 1730 by Richard Scott of nearby Great Barr Hall, in a Georgian architecture, Georgia ...
, both in
Staffordshire
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. He was
Lord of the Manor
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of
Little Aston
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. He owned the "Canaan"
slave plantation
A slave plantation is an agricultural farm that uses enslaved people for labour. The practice was abolished in most places during the 19th century.
Slavery
Planters embraced the use of slaves mainly because indentured labor became expensive ...
in the British
colony of Jamaica
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, which he inherited from his father.
Marriages and children
Jervis married twice.
The Peerage, entry for 2nd Viscount St Vincent
/ref> On 29 January 1790 he married Hon
Hon or HON may refer to:
People Given name
* Cho Hŏn (1544–1592), Joseon militia leader
* Ho Hon (1885–1951), North Korean politician
Surname
* Han (surname) (Chinese: 韩/韓), also romanized Hon
* Louis Hon (1924–2008), French fo ...
Mary Cassandra Twisleton, daughter of Major-General Thomas Twisleton, 13th Baron Saye and Sele
Major-General Thomas Twisleton, 13th Baron Saye and Sele ( – 1 July 1788) was a British Army officer who served in the Seven Years' War and American War of Independence.
Military career
Twisleton was the son of John Twistleton (died 1763) of ...
. They had two children before divorcing in 1799:
* Hon Maria Jervis (born ?, died 13 February 1869)
* Hon William Jervis Jervis (born 11 October 1794, died 1839), father of Carnegie Robert John Jervis, 3rd Viscount St Vincent (born 12 August 1825, died 19 July 1879)
On 14 April 1810 Jervis married Mary Anne Parker of Park Hall, Staffordshire with whom he had two further children:
* Hon Mary Anne Jervis (born c 1813, died 7 March 1893)
* Hon Edward Swynfen Parker-Jervis (born 3 February 1815, died 3 January 1896)
The 2nd Viscount's elder son William Jervis Jervis having pre-deceased him in 1839, he was succeeded on his death in 1859 by his grandson Carnegie Robert John Jervis, 3rd Viscount St Vincent. Viscountess St Vincent died on 3 January 1855.
References
External links
Pedigree 1 of Jervis of St Vincent
2
People from the Borough of Stafford
1767 births
1859 deaths
English slave owners
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