Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny explained

Honorific Prefix:The Most Honourable
Henry Nevill
Birth Date:2 September 1854
Parents:William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny
Caroline Vanden-Bempdé Johnstone
Spouse:Violet Streatfeild
Maud Augusta Beckett-Denison
Mary Frances Hardinge (née Nevill)
Issue:Joan Marion Nevill
Gilbert Reginald Nevill
Geoffrey Nevill
Marguerite Helen Nevill
Tenure:13 October 1927 – 10 January 1938
Other Titles:7th Earl of Abergavenny
3rd Earl of Lewes
7th Viscount Nevill
Marquess of Abergavenny
Successor:Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Gilbert Ralph Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny DL (2 September 1854 – 10 January 1938), styled Lord Henry Nevill between 1876 and 1927, was a British peer.

Early life

Neville was born in Bramham, West Yorkshire and christened at St. Alban's Church, Frant, as the second son of William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny,[1] and his wife Caroline Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, daughter of Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet.

Career

He was a lieutenant-colonel in the Territorial Army Reserves, a major in the Sussex Imperial Yeomanry and a deputy lieutenant of Sussex. In 1881 he lived in Chiddingstone, Kent and in 1891 at Thornhill, Hammerwood, East Sussex.[2]

He succeeded to the marquessate in October 1927,[3] aged 73, on the death of his brother, who died without issue.

Personal life

Lord Abergavenny married Violet Streatfeild, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dorrien Streatfeild, on 12 September 1876. They had three children:

After his first wife's death on 25 December 1880 he married Maud Augusta Beckett-Denison, daughter of William Beckett-Denison, on 20 October 1886. They had one child:

After his second wife's death on 15 July 1927 he married his first cousin, Mary Frances Nevill, daughter of the Honourable Ralph Pelham Neville and widow of Henry Hardinge, 3rd Viscount Hardinge, on 18 October 1928. This marriage produced no children.

Lord Abergavenny died after falling from a horse during a fox hunt.[4] As he died with no male heir,[5] the marquessate passed to his nephew, Major Guy Larnach-Nevill, on his death. The Marchioness of Abergavenny died in October 1954, aged 85.

In popular culture

Lord Abergavenny appears as "Lord Dumborough" in Siegfried Sassoon's autobiographical novel Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.[6]

References

. George Cokayne . Hammond . Peter W. . The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant . XIV, Addenda and Corrigenda . Sutton Publishing . London . 1998 . 3–4 .

Notes and References

  1. News: MARQUIS OF ABERGAVENNY.; Close Friends of Late Lord Beaconsfield Dies at Eridge Castle. . 20 November 2023 . . 13 Dec 1915.
  2. Web site: Lt.-Col. Henry Gilbert Ralph Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny. The Weald. 30 May 2016. 23 April 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210423193729/https://theweald.org/N10.asp?NId=5110516. dead.
  3. News: Marquess of Abergavenny . 20 November 2023 . . 14 Oct 1927.
  4. News: MARQUESS KILLED BY FOX HUNT FALL; Abergavenny, 84, Thrown When Horse Stumbles Over Wire at Groom Bridge, Sussex . 20 November 2023 . . 11 Jan 1938.
  5. News: DEATH COMES TO A MARQUESS . 20 November 2023 . . 12 Jan 1938.
  6. Web site: Who Was Whom?. 3 November 2020. siegfried-sassoon.firstworldwarrelics.co.uk.