Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess Of Bristol

Frederick William Augustus Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol (born 19 October 1979), is a British peer.

He is currently the chairman of Bristol Estates. He is also High Steward of the Liberty of St Edmund, which encompasses the whole former county of West Suffolk.

Early life

Bristol is the only son of the late 6th Marquess by his third wife, the former Yvonne Sutton. His godparents include King Fuad II and his former wife, Queen Fadila of Egypt, Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, Prince Nikita Romanoff of Russia, and the Countess of Dundonald. He is the brother of Lady Victoria Hervey (born 1976) and Lady Isabella Hervey (born 1982).

He was educated at St Maur School in Monaco, Sunningdale School, Eton College, and the University of Edinburgh, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

He became heir to his elder half-brother the 7th Marquess in January 1998, on the death of his older half-brother Lord Nicholas Hervey, and succeeded to the peerage, and subsidiary titles, in January 1999, becoming Marquess and Earl of Bristol, Earl Jermyn of Horningsheath, and 13th Baron Hervey of Ickworth. He was unable to take his seat in the House of Lords before the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force, because he was under 21 years.

Business career

After graduating from Edinburgh University in 2002, Lord Bristol went to live in Estonia, where for seven years he managed a Baltic property fund. He is currently the chairman of Bristol Estates, which owns historic property interests in Horringer, Suffolk, Great Chesterford, Essex, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and in Kemptown, Brighton.

Public life

Bristol is patron of several organisations, including The Abbey of St Edmund Reborn; the Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust; the Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds; and the Friends of West Suffolk Hospital. He is Vice President of Friends of the Suffolk Record Office, Trustee of General Sir William Hervey's Charitable Trust, and founder, Trustee, and Chairman of the Ickworth Church Conservation Trust.

He is also Hereditary High Steward of the Liberty of St Edmund.

Ickworth House and Church

In 1998, the 7th Marquess sold his lease to occupy the East Wing of Ickworth House, the family seat since the 15th century. After his brother's death on 10 January 1999, the 8th Marquess vigorously criticised the National Trust for not being willing to sell him what would have been the remaining term of that lease, arguing that the 7th Marquess could only sell his own life interest, and not that of his successors. This was disputed by the National Trust, which by 2001 had converted the East Wing into a hotel. However, in 2009, Sir Simon Jenkins, the National Trust's new chairman, stated, "I think it is in our interest for the Marquesses of Bristol to be living there".

In 2005, Lord Bristol created the Ickworth Church Conservation Trust, to safeguard the future of St Mary's Church, Ickworth, and transferred ownership of the Church from himself to the Trust. He later led a restoration project and sourced the £1.2m required to restore the building. He remains as Chairman and Trustee of the ICCT, which now owns and manages the Church.

Private life

In 2011, Bristol was romantically linked to the fashion model Alana Bunte.

On 11 May 2018, Lord Bristol married Meredith Dunn, an American art consultant, in a Roman Catholic wedding at the Brompton Oratory. They have a daughter, Lady Arabella Prudence Morley Hervey, born on 8 March 2020 and baptised as a Roman Catholic and a son, Frederick William Herbert Morley Hervey, Earl Jermyn, born on 25 July 2022.

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