Lord Richard Nevill

CMG, CVO, DL
Photograph of Lord Richard, 1922
Born
Richard Plantagenet Nevill

(1862-01-13)13 January 1862
Died1 December 1939(1939-12-01) (aged 77)
EducationEton College
Alma materMagdalene College, Cambridge
Parent(s)William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny
Caroline Vanden-Bempdé Johnstone
RelativesReginald Nevill, 2nd Marquess of Abergavenny (brother)
Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny (brother)
William Beauchamp Nevill (brother)
Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny (nephew)
Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet (grandfather)

Lord Richard Plantagenet Nevill, CMG, CVO, DL (13 January 1862 – 1 December 1939) was a British courtier who served in the households numerous Australian state governors, as well as the governor-generals of Australia and Canada.

Early life

Lord Richard was born on 13 January 1862 as the fifth son of William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny and the former Caroline Vanden-Bempdé Johnstone. Among his siblings were Lady Cicely Louisa Nevill (wife of Col. the Hon. Charles Gathorne-Hardy),[1] Reginald Nevill, 2nd Marquess of Abergavenny,[2] Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny,[3] Lord George Montacute Nevill (who married Florence Soanes was the father of the 4th Marquess of Abergavenny), Lady Alice Maud Nevill (wife of Col. Henry Morland), Lord William Beauchamp Nevill (who married Luisa del Campo Mello),[4][5] Lady Idina Mary Nevill (wife of Thomas Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey), Lady Rose Nevill (wife of Kenelm Pepys, 4th Earl of Cottenham), and Lady Violet Nevill (wife of Henry Wellesley, 3rd Earl Cowley).[6]

His mother 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).[7]

He was educated at Eton College and graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge.[6]

Career

He first went to Australia as private secretary to Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, Governor of Victoria, followed by spells as secretary and aide-de-camp to Sir John Madden, Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria, to Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, Governor of South Australia, to Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote and the William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley as governor-generals of Australia, and as chamberlain to Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman, Governor-General of Australia from 1911 to 1914, and Comptroller of the Household to the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and the Duke of Devonshire from 1914 to 1921, whilst they were governor-generals of Canada.[8][9]

Personal life

In 1933, he was declared bankrupt, having "not been free from moneylenders for forty years";[10] he discharged his bankruptcy later that year.[11]

He died unmarried on 1 December 1939.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "EARL OF CRANBROOK DEAD.; Held High Cabinet Offices -- Defeated Gladstone at Oxford". The New York Times. 31 October 1906. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  2. ↑ "Marquess of Abergavenny". The New York Times. 14 October 1927. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  3. ↑ TIMES, Special Cable to THE NEW YORK (11 January 1938). "MARQUESS KILLED BY FOX HUNT FALL; Abergavenny, 84, Thrown When Horse Stumbles Over Wire at Groom Bridge, Sussex". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Lord William Nevill". East & South Devon Advertiser. British Newspaper Archive. 5 February 1898. p. 2 col.5. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  5. ↑ Nevill, Lord William Beauchamp (1903). Penal Servitude. London: William Heinemann. LCCN 03014405.
  6. 1 2 Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, volume 1, page 20.
  7. ↑ Cokayne, George E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. I, Ab-Adam to Basing. London: St. Catherine Press. p. 44.
  8. ↑ "Lord Richard Nevill". The Times. 4 December 1939. p. 9.
  9. ↑ "Lord Richard Nevill Dead". The Herald. 2 December 1939. p. 3.
  10. ↑ "LORD RICHARD NEVILL. BANKRUPTCY EXAMINATION. Not Free from Money-lenders for 40 Years". Sydney Morning Herald. 31 July 1933. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  11. ↑ "Lord Richard Nevill". The Daily Telegraph. 4 November 1933. p. 5.
  12. ↑ "Lord Richard Nevill Dead". The Herald (Melbourne). No. 19, 516. Victoria, Australia. 2 December 1939. p. 3. Retrieved 14 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
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