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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.
/ref> He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1868. On 14 January 1876 he was created Earl of Lewes, in the County of Sussex, and Marquess of Abergavenny, in the County of Monmouth. He was further honoured when he was made a Knight of the Garter in 1886.
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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 born on 16 September 1826 at Longford and baptised there on 19 September. Nevill was the eldest son of William Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny, by Caroline Leeke, daughter of Ralph Leeke, of Longford Hall, Shropshire. Among his siblings were Lady Caroline Emily Nevill (an early photographer), Lady Henrietta Augusta Nevill (a philanthropist and artist who married Hon.Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn
Thomas Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn (23 January 1830 – 8 May 1861), was a British Liberal Party (UK) Member of Parliament (MP).
Lloyd-Mostyn was the eldest son and heir apparent of Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn. He was educated at Ch ...
), Lady Isabel Mary Frances Nevill (who married the Rev. Hon. Edward Vesey Bligh
The Reverend Honourable Edward Vesey Bligh JP DL (28 February 1829 – 22 April 1908) was an English cricketer, diplomat and clergyman. A descendant of the Darnley Earldom in Kent he, along with many other members of his family, acted as a pat ...
) and Hon. Ralph Pelham Nevill.
He was educated at Eton.
Career
Nevill purchased a commission as cornet and sub-lieutenant in the2nd Life Guards
The 2nd Regiment of Life Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. It was formed in 1788 by the union of the 2nd Troop of Horse Guards and 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards. In 1922, it was amalgamated ...
on 23 July 1844, but retired from the Army in June 1847. On 12 May 1849, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry. He resigned in May 1852. On 2 August 1852, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
.
Lord Abergavenny was appointed honorary Colonel of the West Kent Yeomanry on 17 February 1875, and, from 28 September 1901, honorary Colonel of the Sussex Yeomanry
The Sussex Yeomanry is a yeomanry regiment of the British Army dating from 1794. It was initially formed when there was a threat of French invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. After being reformed in the Second Boer War, it served in the First Wo ...
. He was also a 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 Kent and Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire ( cy, Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south-east of Wales. The name derives from the historic county of the same name; the modern county covers the eastern three-fifths of the historic county. The largest town is Abergavenny, with ...
.thepeerage.com Sir William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny/ref> He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1868. On 14 January 1876 he was created Earl of Lewes, in the County of Sussex, and Marquess of Abergavenny, in the County of Monmouth. He was further honoured when he was made a Knight of the Garter in 1886.
Personal life
On 2 May 1848, Lord Abergavenny married Caroline Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone (1826–1892) atSt George's, Hanover Square
St George's, Hanover Square, is an Anglican church, the parish church of Mayfair in the City of Westminster, central London, built in the early eighteenth century as part of a project to build fifty new churches around London (the Queen Anne C ...
. Caroline was a daughter of Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet and Louisa Augusta Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (a daughter of Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York). They had ten children:
* Lady Cicely Louisa Nevill (1851–1932), who married Col. the Hon. Charles Gathorne-Hardy, a son of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook.
* Reginald William Bransby Nevill, 2nd Marquess of Abergavenny (1853–1927)
* Henry Gilbert Ralph Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny (1854–1938)
* Lord George Montacute Nevill (1856–1920), married Florence Soanes and had issue, including Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny
Major Guy Temple Montacute Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny, JP, DL (15 July 1883 – 30 March 1954) was a British peer.
Guy was the eldest son of Lord George Montacute Nevill and his wife Florence Mary Soanes.
He married Isabel Ne ...
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* Lady Alice Maud Nevill (1858–1898), who married Colonel Henry Morland.
* Lord William Beauchamp Nevill
Lord William Beauchamp Nevill (23 May 1860 – 12 May 1939) was an English Aristocracy (class), aristocrat who was born into the wealthy family of William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny, grew up in Eridge Castle, and attended Eton College. ...
(1860–1939), who married Luisa del Campo Mello; he was charged with fraud in a 1898 court case, and wrote ''Penal Servitude'' (1903).
* Lord Richard Plantagenet Nevill (1862–1939); tall and thin, "Dicky" Nevill was the highly regarded and popular ADC to an Australian Governor-general and several Governors of Victoria. He died unmarried.
* Lady Idina Mary Nevill (1865–1951), who married Thomas Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey.
* Lady Rose Nevill (1866–1913), who married Kenelm Pepys, 4th Earl of Cottenham and had issue.
* Lady Violet Nevill (1866–1910), who married Henry Wellesley, 3rd Earl Cowley and had issue.
The Marchioness of Abergavenny died at Eridge Castle on 13 September 1892, aged 66, and was buried there. Lord Abergavenny died on 12 December 1915 at Eridge Castle, aged 89, and was buried there on 16 December. He was succeeded in the marquessate by his eldest son, Reginald.
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