Henry Nevile (Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire)
Sir Henry Nicholas Nevile,
Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire
for twenty years.
Life
Henry Nicholas Nevile was born on 13 March 1920, the elder son of Charles Joseph Nevile (1883–1930), of
Mildred Mary Nevile.[1] The elder Nevile was the third son of Ralph Henry Christopher Nevile, JP (1850–1911), who had been High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1883; the elder two sons both died childless—Geoffrey Henry Nevile, JP, in 1935, and Lt Hugh George Nevile in 1915 while fighting in World War I. As a result, Henry Nevile became heir to the estates in Wellingore and Auborn which his family had possessed since the 17th century.[2] In 1944, he married Jean Rosita Mary, MBE, daughter of Cyril James Winceslas Torr; they had two sons and three daughters:[3] Sarah Rosita Mary (born 1945), Elizabeth Jane Mary (born 1947), Jill Gabriel Anne Mary (born 1950), Christopher James (born 1954), and Hugh Simon (born 1960).[4]
Following schooling at
Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, and, in 1985, he was appointed High Steward of Lincoln Cathedral. A liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farmers, he served as its master between 1991 and 1992; in 1992, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. He died on 20 October 1996,[3] leaving an estate valued at £3,369,074 net.[5]
References
- required.)
- ^ Townsend, P., Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, vol. 1 (1965), pp. 525–526
- ^ a b "Nevile, Sir Henry (Nicholas)", Who Was Who (online edition), Oxford University Press, April 2014. Retrieved 15 Aug 2016.
- ^ Townsend, P., Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, vol. 1 (1965), p. 525
- ^ "Latest Wills", The Times, 12 May 1997