Background
The only son and heir of Richard Neville Aldworth Neville, he was born on 3 July 1750 in Duke Street, Westminster.
The only son and heir of Richard Neville Aldworth Neville, he was born on 3 July 1750 in Duke Street, Westminster.
4 July 1771, Doctorate.C.L. 3 July 1810, and was incorporated Doctor of Laws of Cambridge in 1819.
He was known as Richard Aldworth-Neville or Richard Aldworth Griffin-Neville to 1797. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, on 20 June 1768, was created Master of Arts On the 21st of the same month he was returned for Reading, and was re-elected there for the three succeeding parliaments (1784, 1790, 1796). He assumed the additional surname and arms of Griffin, and came into possession of the Audley End estate until the death in 1802 of Doctor Parker, son-in-law of the late Baron, who had a life interest in lieutenant
Braybrooke increased the property by the purchase of neighbouring manors and farms from the Earls of Bristol and Suffolk, and other acquisitions.
He became Lord Lieutenant of Essex and custos rotulorum of the county immediately after his accession to the peerage (19 January 1798), and was also vice-admiral of Essex, recorder of Saffron Walden, high steward of Wokingham, hereditary visitor of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and provost-marshal of Jamaica. Braybrooke died on 28 February 1825, after a lingering illness, at his seat at Billingbear House, and was buried at Laurence Waltham.
Aldworth-Neville married in June 1780, at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, Catherine, youngest daughter of George Grenville. Their sons were:
twins, who died immediately after birth;
Honorary
Richard, who became 3rd Baron Braybrooke;
Honorary
Henry, a captain in the dragoons, who died in 1809 while serving in Spain;
Honorary George Neville-Grenville. And
William, who died young.
Of four daughters:
Honorary
Catherine died unmarried in 1841;
Honorary Mary married Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet, of Hawarden;
Honorary
Caroline (d May 1868) married in 1817 Paul Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock. And
Frances died young.
14th Parliament of Great Britain. 15th Parliament of Great Britain. 16th Parliament of Great Britain.
17th Parliament of Great Britain.
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Neville was Member of Parliament for Grampound from 10 October 1774 till the dissolution in 1780, and for Buckingham in the next parliament till his appointment as agent to the regiment of Buckinghamshire militia in February 1782.