Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol

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Rt. Rev. Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol was born on 1 August 1730.1 He was the son of John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth and Mary Lepell.1 He was baptised on 3 September 1730.1 He married Elizabeth Davers, daughter of Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Bt. and Margaretta Green, on 10 August 1752 at Rushbrooke, Suffolk, England.3 He died on 8 July 1803 at age 72 at Albano, Italy, from gout.3 He was buried on 21 April 1804 at Ickworth, Suffolk, England.3

Rt. Rev. Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol was educated at Westminster School, Westminster, London, England.1 He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 24 February 1747.1 He held the office of Clerk of the Privy Seal between 1753 and 1767.1 He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1754 with a Master of Arts (M.A.).1 He held the office of Chaplain to the King in 1763.1 He held the office of Bencher of King's Inn, Dublin in 1767.1 He held the office of Bishop of Cloyne between 1767 and 1768.1 He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) [Ireland] on 9 October 1767.1 He held the office of Bishop of Derry between 1768 and 1803.1 He succeeded to the title of 5th Baron Hervey of Ickworth, Suffolk [E., 1703] on 23 September 1779.1 He succeeded to the title of 4th Earl of Bristol [G.B., 1714] on 23 September 1779.1 He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Society (F.R.S.) on 28 February 1782.1 He succeeded to the title of 5th Baron Howard de Walden on 17 November 1799.1

Sir Jonah Barrington notes that he was "a man of elegant erudition, extensive learning, and an enlightened and classical, but eccentric mind:—bold, ardent, and versatile; he dazzled the vulgar by ostentatious state, and worked upon the gentry by ease and condescension:—he affected public candour and practised private cabal."1 Lord Chesterfield stated that "at the beginning God created three different species, men, women, and Herveys," and Lord Charlemont added that "his genius is like a shallow stream, rapid, noisy, diverting, but useless. Such is his head, and I fear it is much superior to his heart. He is proud and to the last degree vindictive; vain to excess, inconsistant in his friendships... fond of intrigue in gallantry as well as politics, and sticking at nothing to gain his ends in either... A bad father, both from caprice and avarice; a worse husband to the best and most amiable of wives; a determined deist, though a bishop, and at times so indecently inpious in his conversations as to shock the most reprobate... His ambition and his lust can alone get the better of his avarice."1

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