John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, was an English courtier and political writer. Heir to the Earl of Bristol, he obtained the key patronage of Walpole, and was involved in many court intrigues and literar
Portrait by John Fayram, c. 1737
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey
A depiction of the duel between Lord Hervey and William Pultney in 1731
Retuched Painting of Robert Walpole
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Sporus was a young slave boy whom the Roman emperor Nero castrated and married during his tour of Greece in 66–67 AD, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had d
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey
…publication of the Memoirs Hervey was chiefly known as the object of savage satire on the part of Alexander Pope, in whose works he figured as Lord Fanny, Sporus, Adonis and Narcissus. The quarrel is generally put down to Pope's jealousy of Hervey's friendship with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. In the first of the…
Nero on a coin of AD 65/66
The Rape of Proserpina, by Luca Giordano
Dramatisation of the life of Nero at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, 1904. Reclining far right is John Wettervik as Sporus.