and a generous donor to the Ambulance Corps in Northern Ireland. He was a member, until his death, of the International Monarchist League, joining its Grand Council in 1964, from which time he also became a patron. In 1975 he was elected as the League's Chancellor. He was also a long-standing member of the Conservative Monday Club. The Marquess was a patron of the arts and a collector, an acknowledged authority on Lawrence Alma-Tadema and James Tissot, and "a lover of art and beauty in all its forms". He had acquired a substantial amount of 19th-century artwork at the time of his death. Death The 6th Marquess of Bristol died in Monaco on 10 March 1985, aged 69, and was buried in Menton, France. On his grave was inscribed his motto "Je n'oublieray jamais" ("I shall never forget"). At the time of his death, he was living at 1E Formentor, Avenue Princesse Grace, Monte Carlo. On 30 August, probate was granted in London for Bristol’s estate in England and Wales, valued at only £7,508. His name was stated as “Most Honourable Marquis Victor Frederick COCHRANE”. In October 2010, Bristol's last surviving son, the 8th Marquess of Bristol, repatriated his father’s remains, which were reburied in the family vault at the parish church of Ickworth, after a memorial service in St Leonard's Church, Horringer in Suffolk. See also Marquess of Bristol for the history of the Hervey family References Sources Burkes Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage. Edited by Peter Townend, 105th edition. London, 1970, p. 345. The Monarchist, 1985, number 66, Norwich, UK (Memorial on p. 3). De-la-Noy, Michael. The House of Hervey. London, 2001. The Real Pink Panther: Lord Victor Hervey – a TV documentary aired on Channel 4 on 2 March 2009. External links 1915 births 1985 deaths 20th-century English criminals English expatriates in Monaco English prisoners and detainees Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Victor 106 People educated at Eton College 20th-century English nobility British monarchists