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Richard Griffin, 2nd Baron Braybrooke (3 July 1750 – 28 February 1825) was an English politician and peer. He was known as Richard Aldworth-Neville or Richard Aldworth Griffin-Neville until 1797.


Early life

Aldworth was born on 3 July 1750 in Duke Street, Westminster. He was the only son and heir of Richard Neville Aldworth Neville and the former Magdalen Calandrini. His father was a diplomat who served as MP for
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, Wallingford, and
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. His only sibling was sister Frances, who became the wife of Francis Jalabert. His maternal grandfather was Francis Calandrini, first syndic (or civil magistrate) of
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. His paternal grandparents were Richard Aldworth of Stanlake, and the former Catherine Neville (a daughter of Richard Neville of Billingbear House). His father assumed the name and arms of Neville in August 1762, when, on the death of the Countess of Portsmouth (widow of his maternal uncle Henry Neville Grey before her marriage to
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), he succeeded to the estate of Billingbear. He matriculated at
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, on 20 June 1768, was created M.A. 4 July 1771, D.C.L. 3 July 1810, and was incorporated LL.D. of
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in 1819.


Career

Neville served as a
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in the
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in 1779. Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, ''History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment)'', Sulhamstead, Berks, 1897/Scholar Select, ISBN 978-1-37645405-5, pp. 104, 301–2. He was Member of Parliament for
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from 10 October 1774 till the dissolution in 1780, and for
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in the next parliament till his appointment as agent to the Buckinghamshire Militia in February 1782. On the 21st of the same month he was returned for
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, and was re-elected there for the three succeeding parliaments (1784, 1790, 1796). On the death, in May 1797, of his father's maternal uncle
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, by whom he had been adopted as heir, Griffin-Neville succeeded to the Braybrooke barony. He assumed the additional surname and arms of Griffin, and came into possession of the
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estate until the death in 1802 of Dr. Parker, son-in-law of the late Baron, who had a life interest in it. Braybrooke increased the property by the purchase of neighbouring manors and farms from the Earls of Bristol and Suffolk, and other acquisitions. He became
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and custos rotulorum of the county immediately after his accession to the peerage (19 January 1798), and was also vice-admiral of Essex, recorder of
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, high steward of
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, hereditary visitor of
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, and
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of Jamaica.


Personal life

On 19 June 1780 Aldworth-Neville married Catherine Grenville at
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, Buckinghamshire. Catherine was the youngest daughter of Prime Minister
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and the former Elizabeth Wyndham (daughter of
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and sister of
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). Together, they were the parents of six sons (including twins who died immediately after birth) and four daughters: * Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke (1783–1858), who married Lady Jane Cornwallis, eldest daughter of
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and Lady Louisa Gordon (fourth daughter of
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) in 1819. * Hon. Henry Neville-Grenville (d. 1809), a Captain in the dragoons who died while serving in Spain after the
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. * Hon. George Neville-Grenville (1789–1854),
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and Chaplain-in-Ordinary to
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; he married his second half-cousin once removed, Lady Charlotte Legge, second daughter of
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and Lady Frances Finch (second daughter of
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) in 1816. * William Neville-Grenville, who died young. * Hon. Catherine Neville-Grenville (d. 1841), who died unmarried. * Hon. Mary Neville-Grenville, who married Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet, of Hawarden. * Hon. Caroline Neville-Grenville (d. 1868), who married
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in 1817. * Hon. Frances Neville-Grenville, who died young. Lord Braybrooke died on 28 February 1825, after a lingering illness, at his seat at
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, and was buried at Laurence Waltham. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest surviving son,
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.


References

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