Lieutenant-Colonel 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.

Early life

Neville was born in Bramham, West Yorkshire and christened at St. Alban's Church,

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, as 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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Career

He was a lieutenant-colonel 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.

Personal life

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 John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden. * Gilbert Reginald Nevill (1879–1891), who died young. * Geoffrey Nevill (b./d. 1879), who died in infancy. After his first wife's death on 25 December 1880 he married Maud Augusta Beckett-Denison, daughter of

William Beckett-Denison William Beckett-Denison (10 September 1826 – 23 November 1890) was an English banker and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1876 and 1890. He died when he fell under a train at Wimborne. Ear ...

, on 20 October 1886. They had one child: * Lady Marguerite Helen Nevill (1887–1975), she married Lt.-Col. Sir Albert Edward Delavel Astley, 21st Lord Hastings. 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 Henry Hardinge, 3rd Viscount Hardinge, on 18 October 1928. This marriage produced no children. Lord Abergavenny died after falling from a horse during a

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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.

In popular culture

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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