Thomas Hervey 1625-1694

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Sir Thomas HERVEY 1625-94

Biographical Note

Of Ickworth Manor, Suffolk; MP.

Books

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.

Sources

  • 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, forthcoming.