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John Hervey was born in 1665. His parents were Thomas Hervey and Isabella May (1625-1694). He married Isabella Carr (d.1693), daughter of Robert Carr and Elizabeth Bennett. They had three children. He married Elizabeth Felton (d. 1741), daughter of Thomas Felton and Elizabeth Howard. They had six children. He died in 1751.
They were the black sheep of aristocracy and this is their story. From stately homes to the prisons of wartime Britain; from the House of Lords to Edwardian asylums; from the Ritz and the Dorchester to East End dives, Splendour and Squalor tells the fascinating stories of three of Britain's most illustrious aristocratic dynasties and of the black sheep who brought them down.
This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.