Ralph Neville-Grenville Explained

Ralph Neville-Grenville DL, JP (born Ralph Neville; 27 February 1817 – 20 August 1886) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Background

Born Ralph Neville, he was the eldest son of the Very Revd and Hon George Neville-Grenville (Dean of Windsor and son of Richard Griffin, 2nd Baron Braybrooke) and his wife Lady Charlotte Neville-Grenville (née Lady Charlotte Legge, second daughter of George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth).[1] In 1854, on the death of his father he assumed the additional surname Grenville.[2] Neville-Grenville was educated at Eton College and later Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1837. He served in the British Army and was lieutenant-colonel of the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry.[1]

Career

Neville-Grenville entered the British House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Windsor in 1841, representing it until 1847.[3] He sat again for East Somerset from 1865 to 1868, and subsequently for Mid Somerset until his resignation in 1878.[4] In 1846, Neville-Grenville was a Lord of the Treasury.[5] He was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset in 1862 and was a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for the same county.[1]

Family

On 18 September 1845, he married Julia Roberta Russell, daughter of Sir Robert Frankland Russell, 7th Baronet at All Souls Church, Langham Place.[6] They had nine children, three daughters and six sons.[7] A son was Admiral George Neville.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Debrett, John . Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench . Dean & Son . London . 1870 . Robert Henry Mair . 122 .
  2. Book: John Alexander . Wilson Gunn . Melvin George Wiebe . J. B. Conacher . Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1842-1847 . University of Toronto Press . 0-8020-5810-8 . 1989 . 219 .
  3. Web site: Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Windsor . https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231735/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons4.htm . 10 August 2009 . usurped . 6 July 2009 .
  4. Book: Craig, F. W. S. . F. W. S. Craig

    . F. W. S. Craig . British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 . 1977 . 2nd . 1989 . Parliamentary Research Services . Chichester . 0-900178-26-4 . 336, 450, 452.

  5. Book: Haydn, Joseph . The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire . Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's . London . 1851 . 177 .
  6. Book: Sylvanus, Urban . The Gentleman's Magazine . London . John Bowyer Nichols and Son . 1845 . 524 . part II .
  7. Web site: ThePeerage – Ralph Neville-Grenville . 12 March 2007.