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John Hervey Baron Hervey of Ickworth

Hervey, John, Baron Hervey of Ickworth

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Hervey, John, Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696–1743), as vice-chamberlain exercised great influence over Queen Caroline. He was a close friend of Lady M. W. Montagu. He was satirized by Pope in various works from 1732 onwards, at first with mildness, as ‘Lord Fanny’, an idle versifier, and then with increasing bitterness in The Dunciad and as ‘Sporus’ in the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (‘this painted child of dirt, that stinks and stinks’). His Memoirs of the Reign of George II (first pub. 1848) gave a vivid satirical picture of the court.
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John Hervey Hervey of Ickworth, Baron

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John Hervey Hervey of Ickworth, Baron , 1696–1743, English memoirist. A temperamental figure who served in various minor offices under Robert Walpole, he is chiefly remembered for his Memoirs of the Reign of George II, which provide an excellent source for the politics and intrigue of the court of George II.

Bibliography: See edition by R. Sedgwick (3 vol., 1931, repr. 1970); biography by R. Halsband (1973).

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