Major Guy Temple Montacute Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny,
JP,
DL (15 July 1883 – 30 March 1954) was a British
peer
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Guy was the eldest son of
Lord George Montacute Nevill
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.
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and his wife Florence Mary Soanes.
He married Isabel Nellie Larnach (d. 5 November 1953), the only child of James Walker Larnach, on 30 October 1909, and had three children:
*Lady Angela Isabel Nellie Nevill (1910–1980), who married the
7th Earl of Cottenham and was the mother of
Charles Pepys, 8th Earl of Cottenham Kenelm Charles Everard Digby Pepys, 8th Earl of Cottenham (27 November 1948 – 20 October 2000) was an English peer, baronet, cricketer, equestrian, business man, and designer. Known until 1968 as Viscount Crowhurst, he was later known to his fri ...
*Lt. Col.
John Henry Guy Nevill, 5th Marquess of Abergavenny (1914–2000)
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Lord Rupert Nevill (1923–1982)
After the death of his father-in-law, he changed his surname (for himself and his wife only) from Nevill to Larnach-Nevill by
deed poll
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on 17 June 1919. He gained the rank of captain in the Scots Guards and gained the rank of honorary major in 1920 in the Sussex Yeomanry. He held the office of
Deputy Lieutenant and also held the office of
Justice of the Peace
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...
for Sussex. Larnach-Nevill succeeded to the marquessate in 1938 on the death of his uncle,
Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny, who died with no surviving male issue. The 4th Marquess died in 1954 and was succeeded by his elder son, John.
His daughter Lady Angela Isabel married
Digby Pepys, 7th Earl of Cottenham John Digby Thomas Pepys, 7th Earl of Cottenham (14 June 1907 – 12 May 1968) was an English peer, baronet, business man, and breeder of Thoroughbred horses. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1943 until his death in 1968.
The third son of ...
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[Peter W. Hammond, ed., '' The Complete Peerage'', Vol. XIV (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998), p. 210]
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