{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} '''Sir John Neeld, 1st Baronet''' (1805–1891) was a member of Parliament for Cricklade between 1835 and 1859, and Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, between 1865 and 1868.<ref> {{cite web |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/sir-john-neeld |title=Sir John Neeld (Hansard) |work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) |access-date=2009-03-10}}</ref>
== Early life and career == Neeld was one of five sons of Joseph Neeld (1754–1828) and his wife Mary (née Bond) (1765–1857), of Hendon, Middlesex.<ref name=notable>{{cite web |url=http://notableneelds.com/ |title=Notable Neelds |publisher=notableneelds.com |access-date=2009-03-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110128163622/http://notableneelds.com/ |archive-date=28 January 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a B.A. in 1827 and an M.A. three years later.<ref name=":0">{{acad|id=NLT823J|name=Neeld, John}}</ref><ref name="Alderton">{{cite web|url=http://www.lackhamcountrypark.co.uk/history/Alderton.pdf|title=Alderton|last=Pratt|first=Tony|date=|website=|publisher=Lackham Country Park|access-date=2009-03-12}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
In 1840 he was a founding member of the Conservative Club<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40623|title=St. James's Street, West Side, Existing Buildings |publisher=British History Online |access-date=2009-03-10}}</ref> and in 1845 married Lady Eliza Harriet Dickson, setting up home in London.<ref name = Alderton/> The same year he was appointed to the office of Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Victoria,<ref name = Alderton/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/a-victorian-statuary-marble-bust-of-sir-john-neel-1-c-15baym7nkw |title=Lot 648: A Victorian statuary marble bust of Sir John Neeld MP - Featured on Artfact.com |publisher=www.artfact.com |access-date=2009-03-10}}</ref> for which service he was created 1st Baronet Neeld and became entitled to the style "Sir John Neeld" on 20 April 1859.<ref name="rayment">{{cite web|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsN.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501225140/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsN.htm|archive-date=1 May 2008|title=Baronets: N|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Leigh Rayment|url-status=usurped|access-date=2009-03-10}}</ref>
In 1852 he was offered the position of Junior Lord of the Treasury by Lord Derby, but refused.<ref name = Alderton/>
Neeld became a major landowner in Wiltshire, having inherited from his brother Joseph in 1856; in 1872 he was High Sheriff of the county.<ref name = Alderton/>
==Death and legacy== Neeld died on 3 September 1891 at Grittleton House, Wiltshire.<ref name=":0" />
His eldest son Algernon William (11 June 1846 – 11 August 1900)<ref name="genealogy.com">{{Cite web |title=The Bond Family 1734 - 2006:Information about Algernon William Neeld Sir |url=https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/o/n/Reg-Bond/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0118.html |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=Genealogy.com}}</ref> succeeded as 2nd baronet; on his death, Neeld's second son, Audley Dallas Neeld (23 January 1849 – 1 May 1941) became the 3rd baronet and inherited Rembrandt's self-portrait of 1669, today in the Mauritshuis.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Details: Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait, 1669|url=https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/explore/the-collection/artworks/selfportrait-840/detailgegevens/|access-date=2021-06-17|website=Mauritshuis|language=en}}</ref> On Audley's death the title became extinct.<ref name="rayment" />
Neeld's daughter Ada Mary (b. 11 June 1846<ref name="myheritage.com">{{Cite web |title=Ada Neeld |url=https://www.myheritage.com/names/ada_neeld |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=www.myheritage.com}}</ref>),<ref name="genealogy.com"/> twin sister of Algernon,<ref name="myheritage.com"/> married General Sir George Harry Smith Willis, a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1880s, and they went on to have four sons.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/p3dictionaryofna01leesuoft#page/n529/mode/2up (Oxford) Dictionary of National Biography. Sup. Vol III (1901), pp 515–516]</ref> Lady Ada Mary Willis (née Neeld) opened the Southsea Railway on 1 July 1885, as her husband was the Lieutenant Governor of Portsmouth at the time.<ref>{{cite web |title=Royal Garrison Church - General Sir George Willis |url=http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/churches/royal_garrison/willis.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501222359/http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/churches/royal_garrison/willis.htm |archive-date=1 May 2009 |access-date=12 January 2022 |website=Memorials & Monuments in Portsmouth}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.portsmouth-guide.co.uk/local/soutrail.htm|title=Southsea Railway, Fratton|website=www.portsmouth-guide.co.uk|access-date=2019-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://historyinportsmouth.co.uk/people/willis.htm|title=General Sir George Willis – Lt. Governor, Portsmouth (1884–1889)|website=History in Portsmouth|access-date=2019-06-20}}</ref>
== See also == * Neeld baronets
==References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | sir-john-neeld | Sir John Neeld }}
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