Lord Nicholas Hervey

Lord Frederick William Charles Nicholas Wentworth Hervey(/ˈhɑːrvi/) (26 November 1961 – 26 January 1998) was a British aristocrat and political activist. He was the only child born to the 6th Marquess of Bristol and his second wife, Lady Juliet Wentworth-FitzWilliam, and was heir presumptive to the Marquessate. At Yale University, Hervey founded the Rockingham Club, a society for the upper class royalty and aristocracy. He suffered from depression as an adult and committed suicide in 1998.

Lord Nicholas's mother was the only child of the wealthy 8th Earl Fitzwilliam; she was 13 years old when her father died in a small aircraft crash that also killed his intended second wife Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, sister of John F. Kennedy, in 1948. Lady Juliet was the sole heir to her father's estate, then estimated at £45 million. As an adult, she ran a family stud farm.

Nicholas' father was Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol. He also had significant inherited wealth, which he invested into new, albeit minor, businesses. He was once tagged "Mayfair's No. 1 Playboy," in a series of "life story" articles he authored after he served a minor gaol sentence for jewel robbery which, he said, he did for a dare.

Nicholas Hervey's parents married in 1960, his father for the second time, his mother for the first. He was the only child of that marriage.

He was next heir to the title Marquess of Bristol after his elder half-brother John, the 7th Marquess, the only child of his father's first marriage. Nicholas and John were fond of one another. When Nicholas was 11 years old, his mother divorced his father and married his 60-year-old friend, Somerset de Chair (d. 1996), with whom she had a daughter, Helena de Chair, five years later. In 1996, she married a third time and is now known as Lady Juliet Tadgell.

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