Background
Neave was the grandson of Sheffield Neave, a governor of the Bank of England and he was the father of Airey Neave. Born in Kensworth in Hertfordshire on 20 April 1879, he was the son of Sheffield Henry.
Neave was the grandson of Sheffield Neave, a governor of the Bank of England and he was the father of Airey Neave. Born in Kensworth in Hertfordshire on 20 April 1879, he was the son of Sheffield Henry.
He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford.
Neave"s first work was research into the problems related to the Tsetse fly and the study of n animal life. He was part of the Geodetic Survey of Northern Rhodesia between 1904 and 1905. Between 1906 and 1908 he was part of the Katanga Sleeping Sickness Commission and then from 1909 to 1913 the Entomological Research Committee of Tropical While he collected in Eastern, fellow collector James Jenkins Simpson collected from West
Neave returned to the United Kingdom in 1913 and was appointed assistant director of the Imperial Institute of Entomology, becoming director from 1942 to 1946.
From 1918 until 1933 he was honorary secretary of the Royal Entomological Society and was its president in 1934-1935.
Neave retired in 1946 to garden and farm in Essex but he carried on as honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of London until 1952, it was a position he had held since 1942.