William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny explained

Honorific Prefix:The Most Honourable
The Marquess of Abergavenny
Honorific Suffix:KG MVO JP
Office:Lord Lieutenant of Sussex
Term Start:1892
Term End:1905
Birth Date:16 September 1826
Birth Place:Longford, Shropshire
Death Place:Rotherfield, East Sussex
Education:Eton College
Parents:William Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny
Caroline Leeke
Spouse:Caroline Vanden-Bempdé Johnstone
Children:10

William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny (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.

Background and education

He was born on 16 September 1826 at Longford and baptised there on 19 September. Nevill was the eldest son of William Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny, by Caroline Leeke, daughter of Ralph Leeke, of Longford Hall, Shropshire. Among his siblings were Lady Caroline Emily Nevill (an early photographer), Lady Henrietta Augusta Nevill (a philanthropist and artist who married Hon. Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn), Lady Isabel Mary Frances Nevill (who married the Rev. Hon. Edward Vesey Bligh) and Hon. Ralph Pelham Nevill.

He was educated at Eton.

Career

Nevill purchased a commission as cornet and sub-lieutenant in the 2nd Life Guards on 23 July 1844, but retired from the Army in June 1847. On 12 May 1849, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry. He resigned in May 1852. On 2 August 1852, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Sussex.

Lord Abergavenny was appointed honorary Colonel of the West Kent Yeomanry on 17 February 1875, and, from 28 September 1901, honorary Colonel of the Sussex Yeomanry. He was also a justice of the peace for Kent and Monmouthshire.[1] He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1868. 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.

Personal life

On 2 May 1848, Lord Abergavenny married Caroline Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone (1826–1892) at St George's, Hanover Square. Caroline was a daughter of Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet and Louisa Augusta Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (a daughter of Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York). They had ten children:

The Marchioness of Abergavenny died at Eridge Castle on 13 September 1892, aged 66, and was buried there. 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.

References

Notes and References

  1. http://thepeerage.com/p1439.htm#i14389 thepeerage.com Sir William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny
  2. News: EARL OF CRANBROOK DEAD.; Held High Cabinet Offices -- Defeated Gladstone at Oxford. . 6 April 2022 . . 31 October 1906.
  3. News: Marquess of Abergavenny . 6 April 2022 . . 14 October 1927.
  4. News: TIMES . Special Cable to THE NEW YORK . MARQUESS KILLED BY FOX HUNT FALL; Abergavenny, 84, Thrown When Horse Stumbles Over Wire at Groom Bridge, Sussex . 6 April 2022 . . 11 January 1938.
  5. News: Lord William Nevill . 28 March 2022 . East & South Devon Advertiser . British Newspaper Archive . subscription . 5 February 1898 . 2 col.5.
  6. Book: Nevill . Lord William Beauchamp . Penal Servitude . 1903 . William Heinemann . London . 03014405.
  7. News: Lord Richard Nevill Dead . . 19,516 . Victoria, Australia . 2 December 1939 . 14 November 2021 . 3 . National Library of Australia.