Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland was an English peer.
Background
Ralph Neville, born about 1456, was the only child of John Neville, Baron Neville, younger brother of Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, and Anne Holland, daughter of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter. On 6 October 1472 Ralph Neville obtained the reversal of his father"s attainder and the restoration of the greater part of his estates, and thereby became Lord Neville (1459 creation).
Career
He was the grandfather of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland. Neville"s father was slain fighting for the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461, and attainted on 4 November of that year. On 18 April 1475 Neville was created a Knight of the Bath together with the sons of King Edward IV. He was a justice of the peace in Durham.
Foreign his "good services against the rebels", on 23 March 1484 King Richard III granted Neville manors in Somerset and Berkshire and the reversion of lands which had formerly belonged to Margaret, Countess of Richmond.
In September 1484 he was a commissioner to keep the truce with Scotland. Westmorland held a command in the army sent into Scotland in 1497 after James IV supported the pretensions to the crown of Perkin Warbeck.
Westmorland"s eldest son died in 1498.