John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol

Marriages and issue

• to Isabella, daughter of Sir Robert Carr, 3rd Baronet, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire
• to Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of local Suffolk dignitary Sir Thomas Felton, 4th Baronet and his noble wife styled from birth Lady Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk.

• Hon. Isabella Hervey, unmarried
• Hon. Carr Hervey, Lord Hervey, who was educated at Clare College, Cambridge and was an MP for the same seat as his father and grandfather from 1713 to 1722. He died unmarried on 14 November 1723.
• Hon. Catherine Hervey, died young

• Lady Elizabeth Hervey, married Hon. Bussy Mansel, without issue
• John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, was a politician, court wit and pamphleteer. On the death of his half-brother Carr in 1723 he took the courtesy title of Lord Hervey and gained some renown both as a writer and in politics. In 1733, he was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Hervey. He also predeceased his father.
• Hon. Thomas Hervey, was one of the members for Bury from 1733 to 1747; held various offices at court; and eloped with Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet. He had very poor health, and his reckless life frequently brought him into pecuniary and other difficulties. He wrote numerous pamphlets, and when he died Dr. Johnson said of him, "Tom Hervey, though a vicious man , was one of the genteelest men who ever lived".
• Capt. Hon. William Hervey, RN, married Elizabeth Ridge and had issue
• Rev. Hon. Henry Hervey ; married Catherine Aston, assumed her surname, and had issue
• Rev. Hon. Charles Hervey, prebendary of Ely
• Hon. Henrietta Hervey
• A stillborn son, 6 July 1704
• Hon. James Porter Hervey
• Lady Anne Hervey
• Lady Barbara Hervey
• Hon. Humphrey Hervey, died young
• Hon. Felton Hervey
• Hon. Felton Hervey, was also Member of Parliament for the family borough of Bury St Edmunds. He appears in the foreground of Zoffany's "The Tribuna of the Uffizi." Having assumed the additional name of Bathurst, Felton's grandson, Felton Elwell Hervey-Bathurst, was created a baronet in 1818, and on his death a year later the title descended to his brother, Frederick Anne Hervey-Bathurst.
• Hon. James Hervey
• Lady Louisa Carolina Isabella Hervey, married Sir Robert Smyth, 2nd Baronet and had issue
• Lady Henrietta Hervey