Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol

Who was Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol?

Victor Frederick Cochrane Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, was a British aristocrat. He was a member of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the International Monarchist League, and an active businessman who later became a tax exile in Monaco.

The 6th Marquess of Bristol was the only son of Herbert Arthur Robert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol, and Lady Jean Cochrane, the daughter of the 12th Earl of Dundonald. His godmother was Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. He held the titles of Earl of Bristol, Earl Jermyn, and Baron Hervey of Ickworth in Suffolk. He was Hereditary High Steward of the Liberty of Bury St Edmunds, was patron of thirty livings, and held estates in Suffolk, Essex, Lincolnshire, and also in Dominica, in the West Indies. He was educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was sometime President of the National Yacht Harbour Association, a member of the House of Lords Yacht and East Hill clubs and the Hurlingham Club.