Thomas Hervey (landowner)
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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.[1]
On 3 April 1641, aged fifteen, Hervey was admitted to
In his role at the
On 18 January 1679, with the death of his childless elder brother John Hervey (born 1616), Hervey inherited the Ickworth estate, and the same year became one of the two members of parliament for Bury. With the accession of James II, he was part of the opposition to the new king in parliament.[6]
Family
In May 1658, he married Isabella, a daughter of Sir Humphrey May,[7] of Carrow Abbey, Norfolk.
Death
He died on 27 May 1694.[7]
References
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Frank L. Fox, The Four Days' Battle of 1666: The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail (Seaforth, 2009), p. 19
- ^ Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 7 June 1665, pepysdiary.com, accessed 5 February 2021
- ^ Samuel Pepys, Saturday 10 February 1665/66, pepysdiary.com, accessed 5 February 2021
- ^ Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 7 November 1666, pepysdiary.com, accessed 5 February 2021
- ^ a b "HERVEY, Sir Thomas (1625–94), of Ickworth, Suff." in B. D. Henning, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660–1690 (London: Secker & Warburg, 1983)
- ^ a b "HARVEY, Thomas" in Alumni Cantabrigienses, Vol. II, (1922), p. 324