Arms of Neville, Marquess of Abergavenny

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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. Neville was the second son of

William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny 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 ...

and his wife Caroline Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, daughter of

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. Born in

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and christened at St. Alban's Church,

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, he was a

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in the Territorial Army Reserves, a major in the Sussex Imperial Yeomanry and a deputy lieutenant of

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. In 1881 he lived in

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, Kent and in 1891 at Thornhill,

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

Family

Lord Abergavenny married Violet Streatfeild, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dorrien Streatfeild, on 12 September 1876. They had three children: *Lady Joan Marion Nevill (1877–1952), she married

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. *Gilbert Reginald Nevill (1879–1891). *Geoffrey Nevill (b./d. 1879). After his first wife's death on 25 December 1880 he married Maud Augusta Beckett-Denison, daughter of

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, on 20 October 1886. They had one child: *Lady Marguerite Helen Nevill (1887–1975) 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

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, on 18 October 1928. This marriage produced no children.thepeerage.com Lt.-Col. Henry Gilbert Ralph Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny
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. As he died with no male heir, the marquessate passed to his nephew, Major Guy Larnach-Nevill, on his death. The Marchioness of Abergavenny died in October 1954, aged 85. Lord Abergavenny appears as "Lord Dumborough" in

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's autobiographical novel ''

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''.

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* * 1854 births 1938 deaths 03 Deputy Lieutenants of Sussex

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