Hervey, James, clergyman and poet, born at Hardingstone, near Northampton; graduated at Oxford; became curate and subsequently the zealous incumbent of two livings near Northampton; was the author of “Meditations among the Tombs”; was held in great popular favour during his lifetime (1714‒1758).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hertz, Henrik * Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Karl Eberhard