Hervey, Walter
(d. in or after 1276)
- Ian Stone
Extract
Hervey, Walter(d. in or after 1276), mayor of London, rose from obscure origins to become a notoriously divisive figure in thirteenth-century London. Unlike many of his contemporaries who served as aldermen, he does not seem to have been born into an already prominent city family, and nothing is known of his birthplace or parentage. Nor, unlike many other members of ...
