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{{Short description|British peer}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Infobox noble
| honorific_prefix = [[The Most Honourable]]
|name             =Henry Nevill
|image            =The Pratt family (1a).jpg
|caption          =Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny, 1931
|birth_date       ={{Birth date|1854|9|2|df=y}}
|death_date       ={{death date and age|1938|1|10|1854|9|2|df=y}}
|parents          =[[William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny]]<br>Caroline Vanden-Bempdé Johnstone
|spouse           =Violet Streatfeild<br />Maud Augusta Beckett-Denison<br />Mary Frances Hardinge (née Nevill)
|issue            =Joan Marion Nevill<br />Gilbert Reginald Nevill<br />Geoffrey Nevill<br />Marguerite Helen Nevill
|tenure           =13 October 1927 – 10 January 1938
|other_titles     =7th Earl of Abergavenny<br />3rd Earl of Lewes<br />7th Viscount Nevill
|title            =[[Marquess of Abergavenny]]
|successor        =[[Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny|Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess]]
}}
[[File:Arms of Neville, Marquess of Abergavenny.svg|thumb|right|Arms of Neville, Marquess of Abergavenny]]
[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]] '''Henry Gilbert Ralph Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny''' [[Deputy lieutenant|DL]] (2 September 1854 – 10 January 1938), styled '''Lord Henry Nevill''' between 1876 and 1927, was a British peer.
==Early life==
Neville was born in [[Bramham, West Yorkshire]] and christened at St. Alban's Church, [[Frant]], as the second son of [[William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny]],<ref name="1915Obit">{{cite news |title=MARQUIS OF ABERGAVENNY.; Close Friends of Late Lord Beaconsfield Dies at Eridge Castle. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/12/13/archives/marquis-of-abergavenny-close-friends-of-late-lord-beaconsfield-dies.html |access-date=20 November 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=13 Dec 1915}}</ref> and his wife Caroline Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, daughter of [[Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet]].{{sfn|Cokayne|1998|p=8}}
==Career==
He was a [[lieutenant-colonel]] in the Territorial Army Reserves, a major in the Sussex Imperial Yeomanry and a [[deputy lieutenant]] of [[Sussex]]. In 1881 he lived in [[Chiddingstone]], Kent and in 1891 at Thornhill, [[Hammerwood]], [[East Sussex]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lt.-Col. Henry Gilbert Ralph Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny|url=http://theweald.org/N10.asp?NId=5110516|website=The Weald|access-date=30 May 2016|archive-date=23 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423193729/https://theweald.org/N10.asp?NId=5110516|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He succeeded to the marquessate in October 1927,<ref name="1927Obit">{{cite news |title=Marquess of Abergavenny |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/10/14/archives/marquess-of-abergavenny.html |access-date=20 November 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=14 Oct 1927}}</ref> aged 73, on the death of his brother, who died without issue.{{sfn|Cokayne|1998|p=8}}
==Personal life==
Lord Abergavenny married Violet Streatfeild, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dorrien Streatfeild, on 12 September 1876.{{sfn|Cokayne|1998|p=8}} They had three children:
* Lady Joan Marion Nevill (1877–1952), she married [[John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden]].
* Gilbert Reginald Nevill (1879–1891), who died young.
* Geoffrey Nevill (b./d. 1879), who died in infancy.
After his first wife's death on 25 December 1880 he married Maud Augusta Beckett-Denison, daughter of [[William Beckett-Denison]], on 20 October 1886.{{sfn|Cokayne|1998|p=8}} They had one child:
* Lady Marguerite Helen Nevill (1887–1975), she married Lt.-Col. Sir Albert Edward Delavel Astley, 21st Lord Hastings.
After his second wife's death on 15 July 1927 he married his first cousin, Mary Frances Nevill, daughter of the Honourable Ralph Pelham Neville and widow of [[Henry Hardinge, 3rd Viscount Hardinge]], on 18 October 1928.{{sfn|Cokayne|1998|p=8}} This marriage produced no children.
Lord Abergavenny died after falling from a horse during a [[fox hunt]].<ref name="1938Obit">{{cite news |title=MARQUESS KILLED BY FOX HUNT FALL; Abergavenny, 84, Thrown When Horse Stumbles Over Wire at Groom Bridge, Sussex |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/01/11/archives/marquess-killed-by-fox-hunt-fall-abergavenny-84-thrown-when-horse.html |access-date=20 November 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=11 Jan 1938}}</ref> As he died with no male heir,<ref>{{cite news |title=DEATH COMES TO A MARQUESS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/01/12/archives/death-comes-to-a-marquess.html |access-date=20 November 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 Jan 1938}}</ref> the marquessate passed to his nephew, Major [[Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny|Guy Larnach-Nevill]], on his death.{{sfn|Cokayne|1998|p=8}} The Marchioness of Abergavenny died in October 1954, aged 85.
==In popular culture==
Lord Abergavenny appears as "Lord Dumborough" in [[Siegfried Sassoon]]'s autobiographical novel ''[[Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Who Was Whom?|url=http://siegfried-sassoon.firstworldwarrelics.co.uk/html/who_was_whom-.html|access-date=3 November 2020|website=siegfried-sassoon.firstworldwarrelics.co.uk}}</ref>
==Notes==
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==References==
*{{cite book | last=Cokayne | first=George E. | authorlink=George Cokayne |editor-last=Hammond |editor-first=Peter W. | title=The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant | volume=XIV, Addenda and Corrigenda | publisher=Sutton Publishing | location=London | year=1998 |pages=3–4 | url=https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/568116-redirection }}
==External links==
{{Commons category-inline|Henry Gilbert Ralph Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny}}
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* {{NPG name|name=Mary Frances (née Nevill), Marchioness of Abergavenny}}
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| title=[[Marquess of Abergavenny]] | before=[[Reginald Nevill, 2nd Marquess of Abergavenny|Reginald Nevill]] | after=[[Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny|Guy Larnach-Nevill]] | years=1927–1938 }}
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