William Nevill, 1st Marquess of AbergavennyKG MVO JP (16 September 1826 – 12 December 1915), styled Viscount Neville between 1845 and 1868 and known as The Earl of Abergavenny between 1868 and 1876, was a British peer.
Nevill purchased a commission as cornet and sub-lieutenant in the 2nd Life Guards on 23 July 1844,[2][3] but retired from the Army in June 1847.[4] On 12 May 1849, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry.[5] He resigned in May 1852.[6] On 2 August 1852, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Sussex.[7]
Lord Abergavenny was appointed honorary Colonel of the West Kent Yeomanry on 17 February 1875,[8] and, from 28 September 1901, honorary Colonel of the Sussex Yeomanry.[9] He was also a justice of the peace for Kent and Monmouthshire.[10] He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1868.[1] On 14 January 1876 he was created Earl of Lewes, in the County of Sussex, and Marquess of Abergavenny, in the County of Monmouth. He was further honoured when he was made a Knight of the Garter in 1886.[1]
Lady Alice Maud Nevill (1858–1898), who married Colonel Henry Morland.
Lord William Beauchamp Nevill (1860–1939), who married Luisa del Campo Mello; he was charged with fraud in a 1898 court case,[14] and wrote Penal Servitude (1903).[15]
Lord Richard Plantagenet Nevill (1862–1939), tall and thin, "Dicky" Nevill was the highly regarded and popular ADC to an Australian Governor-general and several Governors of Victoria.[16] He died unmarried.
The Marchioness of Abergavenny died at Eridge Castle on 13 September 1892, aged 66, and was buried there.[1] Lord Abergavenny died on 12 December 1915 at Eridge Castle, aged 89, and was buried there on 16 December. He was succeeded in the marquessate by his eldest son, Reginald.[17]
The Tory bloodhound, caricature of Lord Abergavenny by Ape (Vanity Fair, 1875)
William Beauchamp Nevill (1860–1939), son of William Nevill, 1st Marquess
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^"EARL OF CRANBROOK DEAD.; Held High Cabinet Offices -- Defeated Gladstone at Oxford". The New York Times. 31 October 1906. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
^"Marquess of Abergavenny". The New York Times. 14 October 1927. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
^TIMES, Special Cable to THE NEW YORK (11 January 1938). "MARQUESS KILLED BY FOX HUNT FALL; Abergavenny, 84, Thrown When Horse Stumbles Over Wire at Groom Bridge, Sussex". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
^"Lord William Nevill". East & South Devon Advertiser. British Newspaper Archive. 5 February 1898. p. 2 col.5. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
^Nevill, Lord William Beauchamp (1903). Penal Servitude. London: William Heinemann. LCCN 03014405.
^"Lord Richard Nevill Dead". The Herald (Melbourne). No. 19, 516. Victoria, Australia. 2 December 1939. p. 3. Retrieved 14 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^Cokayne 1998, p. 8.
References
Cokayne, George E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. I, Ab-Adam to Basing. London: St. Catherine Press.
Cokayne, George E. (1998). Hammond, Peter W. (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. XIV, Addenda and Corrigenda. London: Sutton Publishing. pp. 3–4.
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