Background
Neville, third son of Richard Griffin Neville, 3rd Baron Braybrooke, was born in Charles Street in the parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, London, on 17 March 1820, and was educated at Eton from 1832 till 1837.
Neville, third son of Richard Griffin Neville, 3rd Baron Braybrooke, was born in Charles Street in the parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, London, on 17 March 1820, and was educated at Eton from 1832 till 1837.
Eton College.
On 2 June 1837 he was gazetted an ensign and lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, and served with that regiment in Canada during the rebellion in the winter of 1838. On 5 November in that year he had a narrow escape from drowning in the Saint Lawrence. On 31 December 1841 he was promoted to be lieutenant and captain, and on 2 September
1842 retired from the service.
At one period geology was his favourite pursuit, and he formed a collection of fossils, which he presented to the museum at Saffron Walden. He also brought together a beautiful series of stuffed birds.
The most remarkable feature, however, of his collections at Audley End is the museum of antiquities of every period, the creation of his own exertions, and consisting almost exclusively of objects brought to light at the Roman station at Great Chesterford, or at other sites of Roman occupation in the vicinity of Audley End, and at the Saxon cemeteries excavated under his directions near Little Wilbraham and Linton in Cambridgeshire during 1851 and 1852. On 25 March 1847 he had been elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and from time to time he made communications to that body regarding his explorations (cf Archæologia, xxxii 350–4, 357–6).
To the ‘Journal of the British Archæological Association’ he also communicated memoirs (cf iii 208–13).
To the ‘Journal of the Archæological Institute,’ of which society he became a vice-president in 1850, he was a frequent contributor (Journal, vi 14–26, viii 27–35, x 224–34, xi 207–15, xiii 1–13). To the ‘Transactions of the Essex Archæological Society’ he sent a list of potters" names upon Samian ware (i 141–8), and notes on Roman Essex (i 191–200). On the death of John Disney in 1857 he was elected president of the society.
In March 1858 he succeeded as fourth Baron Braybrooke.
He was hereditary visitor of Magdalene College, Cambridge, high steward of Wokingham, Berkshire, and vice-lieutenant of the county of Essex. He died at Audley End on 22 February
1861, having married on 27 January 1852 Lady Charlotte Sarah Graham Toler, sixth daughter of the second Earl of Norbury.
She was born 26 December 1826.
Married secondly, on 6 November 1862, Frederic Hetley, Doctor of Medicine, of Norwood, and died on 4 February