Thomas Hervey 1625-1694
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Sir Thomas HERVEY 1625-94
Biographical Note
Of Ickworth Manor, Suffolk; MP.
Books
Hervey's will has no specific mention of books; they would have passed, as part of the residue of his estate, to his eldest son John Hervey. Many books survive today, at Ickworth House and elsewhere, inscribed "Tho: & Isabella Hervey", apparently written by Thomas, although there are numerous books which seem initially to have belonged to his wife, Isabella Hervey, personally. Examples: many at Ickworth; Christopher Edwards catalogue 77 (2020)/64.
Sources
- Will of Sir Thomas Hervey, The National Archives PROB 11/420/420.
- History of Parliament.
- Barker, N. Treasures from the libraries of National Trust country houses, New York, 1998, no 31.
- Smith, E. Marital marginalia: the seventeenth-century library of Thomas and Isabella Hervey, in Katherine Acheson (ed), Early modern English marginalia, New York and London, 2019, 155-72..