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Longford Hall, Salop, by Honoria Frances, only da. of Walter Harvey Thursby. He d. 17 Aug. 1868, at Birling Manor, Kent, in his 77th year, and was bur. there. Will pr. 14 Oct. 1868, under £300,000. His widow d. 19 May 1873, at Birling Manor afsd. Will pr. 17 July 1875, under £35,000.
EARLDOM. V. 1868 BARONY. XXI. 1868.	5. William (Nevill), Earl of Abergavenny, Viscount Nevill, and Lord Abergavenny, 2nd, but 1st surv. s. and h., b. 16, and bap. 19 Sep. 1826, at Longford. Ed. at Eton. An officer in the 2nd Life Guards, 1849. On 14 Jan. 1876 he was cr. EARL OF LEWES,[1] Sussex, and MARQUESS OF ABERGAVENNY, co. Monmouth.[2] K.G., inv. at Windsor 22 Feb. 1886. He m., 2 May 1848, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Caroline, sister of Harcourt, Lord Derwent, and 1st da. of Sir John Van-den-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Bart., by Louisa Augusta, da. of the Hon. Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York. She, who was b. Apr. 1826, d. 13 Sep. 1892, at Eridge Castle, and was bur. at Eridge. Will pr. at over £9,200 gross, and over £2,100 net.
[Reginald William Bransby Nevill, styled Earl of Lewes, 1st s. and h. ap., b. 4 Mar. 1853. Ed. at Eton. Lieut. West Kent Yeomanry, 1873–76. J.P. for Kent 1880.]
Family Estates.—These, in 1883, consisted of 15,364 acres in Sussex; 5,854 in Kent; 2,683 in co. Warwick; 2,639 in co. Monmouth; 1,664 in co. Worcester; 319 in co. Hereford, and 11 in Norfolk. Total, 28,534 acres, worth £30,325 a year. Principal Residence.—Eridge Castle, near Frant, Sussex.

1. A moiety of the town of Lewes came to the Nevills through the Beauchamps and Fitzalans (who possessed the entirety) from the old Earls of Warren and Surrey. The other moiety went through the other coh. of the Fitzalans to the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk. See note sub Robert, Baron Gerard of Bryn. [1876].
2. His Lordship is not improbably h. male of the body of Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmorland, so cr. 29 Sep. 1397, and, as such, entitled to an Earldom, which (but for the exceptional Earldom of Arundel now vested in the Dukes of Norfolk) would be more ancient than any now existing, supposing the attainder of 1570 was reversed. The attainted Earl d. s.p.m.s., in 1601. Soon after his death, Edmund Nevill, styling himself Lord Latimer (a Barony by writ of which, though he was h. male, he was not h. general), claimed in 1605 the Earldom (being h. male of the body of the 1st Earl, but by the second wife) on the ground that being cousin of the half blood (only) to the attainted Earl, such attainder (being that of a person of whom he could not by the [then] law of half-blood be heir) did not affect him. It was however decided against his claim, and the honour declared to be forfeited. This Edmund d. about 1640 (before 2 Jan. 1645/6) s.p.m.s., when Lord Bergavenny possibly became h. male of the 1st Earl. According, however, to Drummond's Noble British Families, p. 15, the issue male of Thomas Nevill, of Pigotts in Ardleigh, Essex (who was of a senior line to the House of Abergavenny, being yr. s. of the 2nd Lord Latimer), existed long afterwards.