Background
HARVEY, John Robert was born on July 31, 1861. Son of late Colonel John Edmund Harvey, 41st Regiment, of Springfield, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and Thorpe, Norfolk, and Octavia Lettice, daughter of Reverend R. Stephens.
HARVEY, John Robert was born on July 31, 1861. Son of late Colonel John Edmund Harvey, 41st Regiment, of Springfield, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and Thorpe, Norfolk, and Octavia Lettice, daughter of Reverend R. Stephens.
Rugby; Trinity Coil. Cambridge.
Served in East Norfolk Militia, 16th Lancers and 5th Lancers. Commanded 43rd Suffolk Yeomanry and 25 th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, 1900-1902 (despatches, Queen’s medal, 3 clasps, King’s medal, 2 clasps). Mayor of Norwich, 1902-1903. D. S.0.1902; Justice of the Peace Norfolk; late King’s Own Norfolk Imperial Yeomanry.
Club: Army and Navy.