Ralph Neville-Grenville

Ralph Neville-Grenville DL, JP (born Ralph Neville; 27 February 1817 – 20 August 1886)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.

For other people named Ralph Neville, see Ralph Neville (disambiguation).

Background

Born Ralph Neville, he was the eldest son of the Very Revd and Hon George Neville-Grenville (Dean of Windsor and son of Richard Griffin, 2nd Baron Braybrooke) and his wife Lady Charlotte Neville-Grenville (née Lady Charlotte Legge, second daughter of George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth).[2] In 1854, on the death of his father he assumed the additional surname Grenville.[3] Neville-Grenville was educated at Eton College and later Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1837.[4] He served in the British Army and was lieutenant-colonel of the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry.[2]

Career

Neville-Grenville entered the British House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Windsor in 1841, representing it until 1847.[1] He sat again for East Somerset from 1865 to 1868, and subsequently for Mid Somerset until his resignation in 1878.[5] In 1846, Neville-Grenville was a Lord of the Treasury.[6] He was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset in 1862 and was a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for the same county.[2]

Family

On 18 September 1845, he married Julia Roberta Russell, daughter of Sir Robert Frankland Russell, 7th Baronet at All Souls Church, Langham Place.[7] They had nine children, three daughters and six sons.[8] A son was Admiral George Neville.

References
  1. "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Windsor". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. Debrett, John (1870). Robert Henry Mair (ed.). Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. p. 122.
  3. John Alexander; Wilson Gunn; Melvin George Wiebe; J. B. Conacher, eds. (1989). Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1842-1847. University of Toronto Press. p. 219. ISBN 0-8020-5810-8.
  4. "Neville [or Neville-Grenville], Ralph (NVL834R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 336, 450, 452. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  6. Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. pp. 177.
  7. Sylvanus, Urban (1845). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part II. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son. p. 524.
  8. "ThePeerage – Ralph Neville-Grenville". Retrieved 12 March 2007.
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