NEVILLE, Christopher (c.1578-1649), of Lewes, Suss., Great St. Bartholomew’s, London and Newton St. Loe, Som.

Family and Education

b. c. 1578,Estimated from date of admiss. to Queens’, Camb. 6th but 2nd surv. s. of Edward Neville† of Birling, Kent and Rachel, da. of John Lennard of Chevening, Kent; bro. of Sir Henry II*. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1594. m. by 1608, Mary (bur. 6 Nov. 1643), da. and coh. of Thomas Darcy of Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex, at least 1s. d.v.p. 1da. suc. to Newton St. Loe estate 1622; D. Rowland, Historical and Genealogical Account of Noble Fam. of Nevill, 162; Al. Cant.; ‘Extracts of Burials from the Regs. of Bath Abbey’ ed. A. Strother The Gen. n.s. vi. 94; HMC 7th Rep. 256. KB 1 Feb. 1626. Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 162. d. May 1649. CCC, 2299.

Offices Held

Commr. sewers, Suss. 1610-at least 1641. C181/2, f. 134v; 181/3, ff. 133, 166v; 181/4, ff. 46v, 73v; 181/5, ff. 69, 205v.

Gent. of the privy chamber, extraordinary by 1625, LC2.6, f. 37v. ordinary 1625–32. SP16/2/118; LC5/132, p. 281.

Member, Guiana Co. 1627; English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon ed. J. Lorimer (Hakluyt Soc. ser. 2. clxxi), 292. cttee. Fisheries Soc. 1632–5. SP16/221/1; CSP Dom. 1635, p. 130.

Parlimentarian

NEVILLE, Christopher (c.1578-1649), of Lewes, Suss., Great St. Bartholomew’s, London and Newton St. Loe, Som.

Main residences: Lewes, Suss.; Great St. Bartholomew's, London; Newton St. Loe, Som.

Author

A.D.

B.C.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

NEVILLE, Christopher (c.1578-1649)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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