not Nicholas and his elder brother, the latter who had however inherited Ickworth House and a large fortune, but rather his third wife and her young children. Nicholas and John launched a lawsuit to have the will overturned. In 1991 Nicholas voluntarily underwent treatment in a clinic and was forced to declare bankruptcy due to debts to his lawyers of £38,000 which his trustees refused to fund, His own mother, while on the Sunday Times Rich List (in 2003 her wealth was estimated at £45,000,000), did not act to prevent the bankruptcy, which appears to have triggered his entry into the clinic. She subsequently declared that "he was never himself again" after the clinic stay. Nicholas had severe depression and became increasingly reclusive. His landlady said that he "drew no shred of comfort from the high rank and great riches to which he was born" and that "he was a recluse, in the sense that he was heavily sedated and slept all day – a typical schizophrenic. He was very quiet, very Old Etonian. He was a nice guy, but very 'out of it'. Nobody visited him here, except sometimes we would hear someone come and take him out to dinner." Lord Nicholas Hervey died on 26 January 1998 at the age of 36; the cause was suicide by hanging. He never married and had no children. His half-brother, John Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol, died less than a year later, also unmarried and childless, having been a habitual heroin addict for many years. References Notes Citations Further reading Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage edited by Peter Townend, 105th edition, London, 1970. De-la-Noy, Michael. The House of Hervey. London, 2001. Hervey, Lord Nicholas. The Monarchist League Today and its Role and Goals for the Future, in The Monarchist, July 1979, no. 55, UK — — The [Monarchist League] Youth Association Spreading its Wings, in The Monarchist, July 1981, no. 59, UK Iovine, Juli V. Lipsticks and Lords: Yale's New Look, in The Wall Street Journal, 4 August 1987, p. 1. Ray, Jonathan, Rake's Progress in the New Statesman, 30 October 2000, vol. 13, issue 629, p. 56. Utley, Tom, article on Hervey in The Daily Telegraph, London, 29 January 1998, (see also news item the previous day). External links Bats in the family belfry: a review of The House of Hervey published in The Spectator, 12 May 2001 1961 births