Ralph Neville-Grenville DL

Deputy Lieutenant

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, JP

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 (27 February 1817 – 20 August 1886) was a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician.

Background

Born Ralph Neville, he was the eldest son of Very Rev. Hon. George Neville-Grenville, in turn son of Richard Griffin, 2nd Baron Braybrooke, and his wife Lady Charlotte Legge, second daughter of George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth

George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth

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. In 1854, on the death of his father he assumend the additional surname Grenville. Neville-Grenville was educated at Eton College

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 and later Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1837. He served in the British Army and was lieutenant-colonel of the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry.

Career

Neville-Grenville entered the British House of Commons

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 as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Windsor

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 in 1841, representing it until 1847. He sat again for East Somerset

East Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1865 to 1868, and subsequently for Mid Somerset

Mid Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)

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 until his resignation in 1878. In 1846, Neville-Grenville was a Lord of the Treasury

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. He was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset

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 in 1862 and was a Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 and Justice of the Peace

Justice of the Peace

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 for the same county.

Family

On 18 September 1845, he married Julia Roberta Russell, daughter of Sir Robert Frankland Russell, 7th Baronet at All Souls Church, Langham Place

All Souls Church, Langham Place

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. They had nine children, three daughters and six sons.

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