William Nevill, ''de facto'' 16th (''de jure'' 1st) Baron Bergavenny, (before 1701 – 1744) was an English peer who held office in the

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and built a country mansion.

Life

The son of Edward Nevill (1664-1701), a Captain in the

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who died aboard a ship off the coast of

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, and his wife Hannah (1668-1764), daughter of Gervase Thorpe of Brockhurst, he succeeded to the barony on the death of his cousin

Edward Nevill, 15th Baron Bergavenny Edward Nevill, ''de facto'' 15th (''de jure'' 3rd) Baron Bergavenny (c. 1705 – 9 October 1724) was an English peer. Life Son of George Nevill, 13th Baron Bergavenny and his wife Anne Walker, he became baron when his elder brother George Ne ...

, who had died without children. On 20 May 1725, he married his cousin's widow, who was Katharine, daughter of Lieutenant-General William Tatton and his wife Elizabeth Bull. Their elder son was

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. Katharine died on 4 December 1729 after giving birth to a second son and on 20 May 1732 he married Lady Rebecca Herbert, daughter of

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and his wife Margaret Sawyer, with whom he had more children. Leaving the family's old house at

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, he moved to Kidbrooke Park at

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, where he built a mansion in 1733-4, purchasing surrounding farmland to lay out new grounds and a park. Altered since then, house and gardens in 2015 were the site of Michael Hall School). In 1739 he obtained the position of

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, a post he held up to his death. He died in Bath on 21 September 1744 and was buried at

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on 30 September 1744, with the administration of his estate granted on 20 November 1744.

References

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18th-century English landowners Masters of the Jewel Office Barons in the Peerage of Great Britain People from Birling, Kent People from Forest Row