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"very wise and prudent manager, ordered all not only faithfully, but
"better than he would have done for himself." Eliab had estates at
Roehampton, in Surrey, and at Chigwell, Essex. He built the Harvey
chapel with the outer vault below it, in Hempstead Church, near Saffron
Walden. Here he buried his brother William in 1657, and here he was
himself buried in 1661. He married Mary West on February 15th, 1624,
and by her had several children, of whom the eldest became Sir Eliab
Harvey at the Restoration.
Walpole writes to Mann about one of his descendants, February 6th,
1780:—"Within this week there had been cast a hazard at the Cocoa
"Tree, the difference of which amounted to an hundred and four-score
"thousand pounds. Mr. O'Birne, an Irish gamester, had won £100,000
"of a young Mr. Harvey of Chigwell, just started for a midshipman, into
"an estate by his elder brother's death. O'Birne said, 'You can never
"'pay me.' 'I can,' said the youth, 'my estate will sell for the debt.'
"' No,' said O'Birne, 'I will win ten thousand, you shall throw for the
"' odd ninety.' They did, and Harvey won."
This midshipman afterwards became Sir Eliab Harvey, G.C.B., in
command of the Temeraire at the battle of Trafalgar, and Admiral of the
Blue. He sat in the House of Commns for the town of Maldon from
1780 to 1788, and for the county of Essex from 1802 until his death in
1830. The family quickness of temper, as I have said before, seems
to have been an abiding characteristic, as three generations after William
Harvey this Sir Eliab Harvey had the failing strongly developed, as the
following letter shows. This letter is from Sir Eliab Harvey's wife, Lady
Louisa, to her daughter, and runs :
"Dear Louisa,
"What did you write to your father this morning ? As soon as he
"had read your letter he went up to his dressing room, where he spent
"the morning in kicking his wig about and using that nautical language
"with which you are so well acquainted."
With the death of Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey the male line of the
family of Harvey became extinct. His daughter Louisa married a William
Lloyd of Aston. Various members of the Lloyd family lived in the
house until 1921, when the late owner came and resided there until he
died. This was Lieut.-General Sir Francis Lloyd, G.C.B.
Below Eliab is the portrait of Michael Harvey, the twin brother of
Matthew, who was born at Folkestone September 25th, 1593. He lived
in St. Laurence Pountney and St. Helen's, Bishopsgate. Like his
brother, he was a Turkey merchant and a member of the Grocers' Company.
He married Mary Baker April 29th, 1630, and, after her death, Mary
Mellish, about 1635. He had three children by his second wife, and
one of his sons died at Bridport in 1685 from wounds received in the
service of King James II. Michael Harvey died on January 22nd, 1642-3,
and is buried in the Church of Great St. Helen, Bishopsgate.
Matthew Harvey, the twin brother of Michael, and, like him, a Turkey
merchant and perhaps a member of the Grocers' Company, was born
at Folkestone on September 25th, 1593. He married Mary Hatley on
December 15th, 1628, and dying December 21st, 1642, was buried at
Croydon. His only child died in her infancy.