Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol

Herbert Arthur Robert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol (10 October 1870 – 5 April 1960), styled Lord Herbert Hervey from 1907 to 1951, was a British peer and diplomat.

The 5th Marquess was born on 10 October 1870 at the family home of Ickworth House near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

[1] He was the fifth son of Lord Augustus Hervey (1837–1875), MP for West Suffolk,[1] and Mariana, née Hodnett (died 30 January 1920).

[3] For a year he served as chargé d'affaires at Montevideo and Guatemala, and was Consul in Abyssinia from 1907 to 1909.

He was listed as a commercial attaché in 1913, and was elevated to the status of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Colombia in 1919–1923 and Peru and Ecuador in 1923–1928, retiring in 1929.