Latimer Neville, 6th Baron Braybrooke (22 April 1827 – 12 January 1904), styled the

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Latimer Neville until 1902, was a British peer, clergyman and academic, for half a century Master of

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. Neville was the fourth son of

Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke (26 September 1783 – 13 March 1858), known as Richard Neville until 1797 and as the Hon. Richard Griffin between 1797 and 1825, was a British Whig politician and literary figure. Background and educati ...

. He was educated at

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and

, matriculating in 1845 aged 18, gaining a Fellowship in 1848, and graduating

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in 1849. He was ordained deacon in 1850 and priest in 1851. Neville's father Lord Braybrooke was the Visitor of Magdalene College; his uncle

George Neville-Grenville George Neville-Grenville (17 August 1789 – 10 June 1854), named George Neville until 1825,''Burke's Peerage 2003'', page 490 was Dean of Windsor in the mid nineteenth century. Early life Neville was born a younger son of the Hon Richard Grif ...

was the Master. In 1846 Neville-Grenville was appointed

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and offered to resign the Mastership; Lord Braybrooke, as Visitor, refused the resignation, intending that Latimer Neville (then aged 19) should eventually succeed him as Master. With some diplomacy needed to manage the Fellowship, this transition was achieved in 1853, and Latimer Neville became Master at the age of 26. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1859–61. He held the following church livings: * Curate of

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, 1850–51 * Rector of Heydon with Little Chishill, 1851–1904 * Rural Dean of

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, 1873–79 * Honorary Canon of

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, 1873–1904 He was described as "a good but dull man lacking intellectual powers".Alex Samuels, Magdalene Association Essay Prize 2005-2006
He succeeded his brother

Charles Neville, 5th Baron Braybrooke Charles Cornwallis Neville, 5th Baron Braybrooke (29 August 1823 – 7 June 1902) was a British peer. Life Neville was the second son of Richard Griffin Neville, 3rd Baron Braybrooke (1783-1858), by his wife Lady Jane Cornwallis (1798-1856), daugh ...

as the 6th Baron in 1902, and died on 12 January 1904 at the Master's Lodge at Magdalene College.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Neville, Latimer, 6th Baron Braybrooke 1827 births 1904 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge Masters of Magdalene College, Cambridge 6 19th-century English Anglican priests