Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny

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.

The Marquess of Abergavenny
Marquess of Abergavenny
Arms of the Marquess of Abergavenny
Tenure	13 October 1927 – 10 January 1938
Successor	Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess
Other titles	7th Earl of Abergavenny 3rd Earl of Lewes 7th Viscount Nevill
Born	2 September 1854
Died	10 January 1938 (aged 83)
Spouse(s)	Violet Streatfeild Maud Augusta Beckett-Denison Mary Frances Hardinge (née Nevill)
Issue Joan Marion Nevill Gilbert Reginald Nevill Geoffrey Nevill Marguerite Helen Nevill
Parents	William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny Caroline Vanden-Bempdé Johnstone

Neville was the second son of William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny and his wife Caroline Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, daughter of Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet.[1] Born in Bramham, West Yorkshire and christened at St. Alban's Church, Frant, he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Territorial Army Reserves, a Major in the Sussex Imperial Yeomanry and a Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex. In 1881 he lived in Chiddingstone, Kent and in 1891 at Thornhill, Hammerwood, East Sussex.[2] He succeeded to the marquessate in October 1927, aged 73, on the death of his brother, who died without issue.[1]

Family

Lord Abergavenny married Violet Streatfeild, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dorrien Streatfeild, on 12 September 1876.[1] They had three children:

• Lady Joan Marion Nevill (1877–1952), she married John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden.
• Gilbert Reginald Nevill (1879–1891).
• Geoffrey Nevill (b./d. 1879).

After his first wife's death on 25 December 1880 he married Maud Augusta Beckett-Denison, daughter of William Beckett-Denison, on 20 October 1886.[1] They had one child:

• Lady Marguerite Helen Nevill (1887–1975)

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.[1] This marriage produced no children.[3] Lord Abergavenny died after falling from a horse during a fox hunt.[4] As he died with no male heir, the marquessate passed to his nephew, Major Guy Larnach-Nevill, on his death.[1] The Marchioness of Abergavenny died in October 1954, aged 85.

Lord Abergavenny appears as "Lord Dumborough" in Siegfried Sassoon's autobiographical novel Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.[5]

Notes

1. Cokayne 1998, p. 8.
2. "Lt.-Col. Henry Gilbert Ralph Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny". The Weald. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
3. thepeerage.com Lt.-Col. Henry Gilbert Ralph Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny
4. "MARQUESS KILLED BY FOX HUNT FALL; Abergavenny, 84, Thrown When Horse Stumbles Over Wire at Groom Bridge, Sussex". The New York Times. 11 January 1938. p. 9. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
5. "Who Was Whom?". siegfried-sassoon.firstworldwarrelics.co.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2020.

References

• Cokayne, George E. (1998). Hammond, Peter W. (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. XIV, Addenda and Corrigenda. London: Sutton Publishing. pp. 3–4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny
• Portraits of Mary Frances (née Nevill), Marchioness of Abergavenny at the National Portrait Gallery, London