Lord Rupert Nevill

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Lord Rupert Nevill CVO JP DL (1923 – 1982) was the younger son of Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny, and a member of the Office of the Duke of Edinburgh. He was made a CVO in 1979, and KStJ in 1968.

Lord Rupert was educated at Eton College. He served in the Life Guards during World War II as a Captain in the Coats Mission, and from 1945-1947 as Aide-de-Camp to General Sir Brian Horrocks.

He married in 1944 Lady Anne Wallop, daughter of the 9th Earl of Portsmouth. They sold their home, Uckfield House, in 1966, and later lived at Horsted Place, East Sussex.

He was Treasurer to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh from 1970 (part-time until 1976), and Private Secretary from 1975. He died in office in 1982, and the heirship of the marquessate passed to his son.

Lord Rupert was a member of the London Stock Exchange and held many company directorships, including the Daily Mail Trust, Courier Printing and Publishing Co, Sun Life Assurance Society (vice-chairman), Household and General Insurance Co Ltd, Owners of Middlesborough Estates Co, Travel Credit Ltd, National Group of Unit Trusts, West Cumberland Silk Mills, Australian Estates,

Nevill was vice-chairman of the National Playing-Fields Association from 1963, and Chairman of the British Olympic Association from 1966. He was president of the National YMCA from 1966 (vice-chairman 1963-1966), and of the Metropolitan Union of YMCA from 1956, and a member of the World Council of YMCA from 1956. Chairmanships included the Invalid Children's Aid Association (1969), and the Sussex Army Cadets (1951-1968). He was a member of the Sussex St John's Council from 1952 (chairman from 1966), and President of the Sussex St John Ambulance Brigade (1961), the South Eastern Area Building Society (1960), the South Eastern Area TSB (1964), and the Sussex St John Ambulance Cadets (1952-1961). He was vice-president of the Building Societies Association (1960), and the Sussex Boy Scouts (1950) and Sussex Boys' Clubs.

Lord Rupert was a Justice of Peace of Sussex from 1953 and Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex in 1960. Lord Rupert was High Sheriff of Sussex 1952-1953. He was a member of the Uckfield Rural District Council 1949-1967, and of the Sussex County Council 1954-1967.