Sir John Neeld, 1st Baronet (1805–1891) was Member of Parliament for

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between 1835 and 1859, and

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, Wiltshire, England between 1865 and 1868.

Early life and career

Neeld was one of five sons of Joseph Neeld (1754–1828) and his wife Mary (née Bond) (1765–1857), of

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, Middlesex. He was educated at

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and

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, where he took a B.A. in 1827 and an

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three years later. In 1840 he was a founder member of the

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and in 1845 married Lady Eliza Harriet Dickson, setting up home in London. The same year he was appointed to the office of

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, for which service he was created 1st Baronet Neeld and became entitled to the style "Sir John Neeld" on 20 April 1859. In 1852 he was offered the position of

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, but refused. Neeld became a major landowner in Wiltshire, having inherited from his brother

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in 1856; in 1872 he was High Sheriff of the county.

Death and legacy

Neeld died on 3 September 1891 at

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, Wiltshire. His son Algernon William (11 June 1846 – 11 August 1900) inherited the baronetcy; on his death his son, Audley Dallas Neeld, became the 3rd Baronet and inherited

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's self-portrait of 1669, today in the

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. On the Audley's death on 1 May 1941 the title was extinguished. John Neeld's daughter Ada Mary (b. 11 June 1846), twin sister of Algernon, married General Sir George Harry Smith Willis, a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1880s, and they went on to have four sons. Lady Ada Mary Willis (née Neeld) opened the

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on 1 July 1885, as her husband was the Lieutenant Governor of Portsmouth at the time.

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