Felton Hervey

Felton Hervey (12 February 1712 – 16 August 1773)[1] was an aristocratic English politician from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, and a member of the British royal household.

He took his son and daughter on a grand tour of Italy where he met Johann Zoffany and Pope Clement XIV.

His elder brother's brief life and death are recorded in a naive painting conserved in the Rotunda, Ickworth House, that is possibly by Joseph Brooke.

[2] (In 1757 his nephew Augustus Hervey was narrowly elected for Bury St Edmunds by one vote despite still being in active command of a ship in the Mediterranean.

[1] Beside the Zoffany painting there is also a much younger and larger portrait by John Fayram in the Ickworth Rotunda,[13] and the National Trust own a miniature of him by Christian Friedrich Zincke, which dates from about 1730.