Ralph Neville-Grenville DL, JP (27 February 1817 – 20 August 1886)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.
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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.[2] In 1854, on the death of his father he assumend the additional surname Grenville.[3] Neville-Grenville was educated at Eton College and later Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1837.[4] He served in the British Army and was lieutenant-colonel of the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry.[2]
Neville-Grenville entered the British House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Windsor in 1841, representing it until 1847.[1] He sat again for East Somerset from 1865 to 1868, and subsequently for Mid Somerset until his resignation in 1878.[5] In 1846, Neville-Grenville was a Lord of the Treasury.[6] He was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset in 1862 and was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the same county.[2]
On 18 September 1845, he married Julia Roberta Russell, daughter of Sir Robert Frankland Russell, 7th Baronet at All Souls Church, Langham Place.[7] They had nine children, three daughters and six sons.[8]
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Preceded by John Ramsbottom Robert Gordon |
Member of Parliament for Windsor 1841 – 1847 With: John Ramsbottom 1841–1845 George Alexander Reid 1845–1847 |
Succeeded by George Alexander Reid Lord John Hay |
Preceded by William Knatchbull Sir William Miles, Bt |
Member of Parliament for East Somerset 1865 – 1868 With: Richard Horner Paget |
Succeeded by Ralph Shuttleworth Allen Richard Bright |
New constituency | Member of Parliament for Mid Somerset 1868 – 1878 With: Richard Horner Paget |
Succeeded by Richard Horner Paget William Stephen Gore-Langton |