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Whitelock), who was only s. and h. of Richard or Edward Nevill, the s. and h. ap. of Sir Christopher Nevill, of Newton St. Loo, Somerset, K.B., who was yst. s. of Edward, 8th, and br. of Henry, 9th Lord. He suc. his father in 1665, thirty years before he suc. to the Peerage. He took his seat in the House of Lords, 1 May 1695. Except on the theory that his writ was incidental either (i) to a Patent (hitherto undiscovered) of 1604 to his ancestor, or of 1695 to himself, or (ii) to the tenure of the Castle, such writ must (according to all modern Peerage law) have cr. a Barony in fee and one de novo of the date of 1695. Gent, of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Denmark. He m., 22 Oct. 1698,[1] at St. Anne's, Soho, Anne, da. of Nehemiah Walker, of Midx., "a sea captain," from whom he apparently was separated after 8 Jan. 1711/12.[2] He d. 11, and was bur. 19 Mar. 1720/1, in his 63rd year, at Sheffield, Sussex. Will, in which he revokes all benefits hitherto made to his wife, Anne, dat. 16 Dec. 1708 (with a cod. 24 Nov. 1720), pr. 17 Aug. 1723.[3] His widow m., (as his 2nd wife) 15 June 1744, John (West), 1st Earl de la Warr, who d. 16 Mar. 1766. She d. at Balderwood Lodge, Hants, 26 June 1748. | |
| XIV. 1721. | 14, 7, or 2. George (Nevill), Lord Bergavenny, or Abergavenny, 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h., b. 16 May and bap. 26 Aug. 1702, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. Matric. at Univ. Coll. Oxford, 13 Sep. 1722. He m., 21 Feb. 1722/3, at St. Mary Magd., Old Fish Str., Elizabeth, 1st sister and coh. of Gideon Thornicroft, of Dodington and Linstead, Kent, and da. of Col. Edward Thornicroft, of Westm., by Mary, only da. and eventually sole h. of Sir William Delaune, of Sharsted, Kent. He d. s.p., 15 Nov. 1723, of the small pox, in Soho Sq., and was bur. at Sheffield, Sussex.[4] His widow (by whom he had two posthumous daughters, both of whom, b. 20 Nov., d. 1 Dec. 1723) m. Alured Pincke, of Lincoln's Inn, and Tottenham High Cross, Midx., who was bur. 6 Dec. 1755, at Tottenham afsd. She d. 4, and was bur. 12 Mar. |
- ↑ The following entry is in the St. Pancras Reg. "George Newton, Gent., and Mrs. Anne Walker married by License. (I understand this was my Lord Abergavenny but he did not own his quality) 10 Apr. 1697." No doubt he m. again at St. Anne's, Soho, 22 Oct. 1698, the validity of the first ceremony being doubted. V.G.
- ↑ Lady Wentworth at that date writes:—"Here is a strange unnatural report of Lady Abargane, that she has in passion killed her own child, about 7 years old; she having been a great while whipping it, my Lord being grieved to hear it cry so terribly, went into the room to beg for it, and she threw it with such a force to the ground, she broke the skull." V.G.
- ↑ His will is signed "Bergavenny," and this appears to be the last signature, so spelt, of any of these Lords. According to Macky (Characters), he (about 1704) "was a little brown man, very lively, 30 [45] years old; with, learning, wit and one of the best libraries in England." He was the "first Protestant Lord that bears that title." (Luttrell, Diary, 30 Mar. 1695.) V.G.
- ↑ "A most ingenious sensible young gentleman, but very muchvdeformed." (T. Hearne, 1723.) VG.
