Marquess of Bristol's body to be dug up after 25 years The body of the 6th Marquess of Bristol, the father of the socialites Lady Victoria and Lady Isabella Hervey… 1 He married, firstly, Pauline Mary Bolton, daughter of Herbert Coxon Bolton, on 6 October 1949. His father Victor, the 6th Marquess of Bristol, was known for being a playboy and married three times. I’m not going to be pressured into doing anything just because it’s expected of me. John was quite high profile, so obviously that meant when he died it shoved me into the limelight a bit, too.’It’s this conviction which drives him in Brickowner. John, who is said to have slept with more than 2,000 male prostitutes, died from Aids, leaving just £5,000. Biography. There was a painted gold dove on the font cover and someone had even cut that off.Rather than lambast his brother John – whom Lady Victoria once described as ‘evil’ – he seems determined to strike a very forgiving note.‘I don’t feel anger towards my brother because when you’re a drug addict, you’re not rationally deciding to do things – something else is controlling you,’ he says.‘He was the only male member of the paternal line of my family I’ve ever known.
The gang became known as the Mayfair Boys.Remembering that the police suspected Hervey of being responsible for every jewel theftin the south of England, could he have been the one to take the duchess’ jewels?The gang had used a black Rolls Royce as their getaway car.The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII and Mrs Wallis Simpson, were largely exiled from Britain. In 1975 Victor Hervey, by then the sixth Marquess, put the house and its contents on the market and John was forced to raise the pounds 2.6m required to buy back his home. ‘After it was made redundant in 1984 and John bought it, it fell into a very bad state of repair. Victor, 6th Marquess of Bristol (1915-1985), John, 7th Marquess of Bristol (1954-1999) Visit our orangery to find out more about the 6th Marquess and his extraordinary life National Trust Images So much so that he moved to Monaco where he lived as a tax exile.In 1946, when Victor was apparently a respectable businessman, five masked men entered Hever Castle. Victor Frederick Cochrane Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol was born on 6 October 1915. He also dabbled in a degree of dubious arms sales. Another half-brother, Lord Nicholas Hervey, hanged himself after battling drugs and depression.In 1956, the house and estate were surrendered to the Treasury in lieu of death duties and handed to the National Trust.
This was once the home of Anne Boleyn and the men made away with historic jewellery that had belonged to the executed queen, items that had belonged to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. If you take a drug like heroin it’s a way of blocking your feelings, so it stunts you emotionally, which made him quite child-like.‘I feel such a strong link to it,’ he says. The police strongly suspected that Victor Hervey was involved.Did Victor Hervey really make enough money from his legitimate business interests to become a tax exile in Monaco? His fascination with the concept, he admits, stems directly from his family’s experiences with building – and losing – property and wealth over the course of generations.Although effectively powerless to reclaim his family seat, in 2005 he started a charity to raise money to refurbish St Mary’s Church at Ickworth, his family’s spiritual home.His sisters’ fondness for attention is something Fred does not share. But there was more. He was a member of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the International Monarchist League, and an active businessman who later became a … The remaining three were rather like himself – well-educated and from good families. "Lady Bristol decided that it was time to bring him home to 'sweet Ickworth'," says Kate Armstrong, the personal secretary to Yvonne, who was the peer's third wife.