Richard Neville Esq (1615 - 1676)

Born 30 May 1615 in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, England [uncertain]

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Died 7 Oct 1676 at age 61 in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, England

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Biography

Richard Neville was born on 30 May 1615, son of [Sir] Henry Neville and Elizabeth Smythe.^[1]

Richard 'Nevell' was baptised on 15 Jun 1615 at Binfield, Berkshire, son of Henry Nevell.^[2]

In the Nevill Pedigree in the Visitation of Berkshire in 1665-1666^[3] he was recorded as Richard Nevill of Billingbeare esq., eldest son of Sir Henry Neville and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Smyth of Ostenhanger.

He married Anne, eldest daughter of Sir John Heydon of Baconthorpe, Norfolk.^[1][3]

Children:

• Anne Neville (born 14 Feb 1647)^[3]
• Mirabell Neville (born 16 Nov 1650)^[3]
• John Neville (eldest son, born 23 Jul 1652)^[3][4]
• Richard Neville (second son, born 12 Oct 1655)^[1][3][4][5]
• Elizabeth Neville (born 06 May 1657^[3]; married John Fawconer/Falconer^[6][7][8])
• Katherine Neville (born 23 Jun 1659^[3]; married Hillarsden^[8])
• Frances Neville (born 19 May 1664^[3]; married Sir Richard Cocks^[8][9][10])

Richard Neville served with the royalist forces in the Civil War and was at Oxford in 1646, but afterwards compounded for his estates under the articles of surrender.^[4]

He died on 07 Oct 1676 and was buried at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire.^[1]

There is a portrait of Richard Neville by William Dobson from 1643, part of the National Portrait Gallery Collection.^[11] As of 2019 it was on loan at the Tate Britain.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Neville, Richard (1615-76), of Billingbear, Binfield, Berks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983 HOP.
2. ↑ England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NP28-L2C : 11 February 2018, Richard Nevell, 16 Jun 1615); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 88,220.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8} The Four Visitations of Berkshire. The Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol LVI, Rylands W H (Ed.), 1907. Nevill of Billingbeare Pedigree pp 249-250 Internet Archive.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} 'Parishes: Waltham St Lawrence', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 179-184. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp179-184 [accessed 11 February 2023].
5. ↑ Neville, Richard (1655-1717), of Billingbear, Berks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002 HOP.
6. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NK12-Z44 : 13 March 2020), Elizabeth Neuill in entry for John Faulcon, 1671.
7. ↑ Drawing of the monument [in Kingsclere church, Hants.?] to Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Neville of Billingbear and her husband, John Fawconer. Description: The printed pedigree (F 41) states that John and Elizabeth Fawconer were buried at Kingsclere but confuses the date of John's death (1707) with that of Elizabeth (1714). Date: 1714. D/EN/F47/1. Royal Berkshire Archives Discovery.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Will of Henry Neville of Warfield, Berkshire. 11 October 1694. PROB 11/421/450. The National Archives, Kew.
9. ↑ Cocks, Sir Richard, 2nd Bt. (c.1659-1726), of Dumbleton, Glos. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002 HOP.
10. ↑ Complete Baronetage. Vol. III 1649-1664, published 1903, p 242 Internet Archive.
11. ↑ Neville Richard, 1643. By William Dobson. National Portrait Gallery NPG.

See also:

• Audley End (1953), by William Addison (pedigree of Neville of Audley End).
• Richard Neville Wikipedia.