Thomas Hervey (landowner)

Sir Thomas Hervey (1625 – 27 May 1694) was an English Commissioner of the Royal Navy, landed gentleman, and Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds.

[1] On 3 April 1641, aged fifteen, Hervey was admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge, as a pensioner, but did not take a degree.

He became a Justice of the Peace for Suffolk, an Alderman of the corporation of Bury St Edmunds, and from 1664 to 1668 was a Commissioner of the Royal Navy.

[1] In his role at the Navy Board, Hervey held a political appointment and in practice did very little, like the other Commissioners leaving the actual work to their Secretary, Samuel Pepys.

He was coldly received by us..."[4] On 7 November, Pepys wrote dismissively of Hervey "... but a coxcombe he is and will never be better in the business of the Navy".