# Nevill

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**Nevill** is an [English](/source/English_language) [toponymic surname](/source/Toponymic_surname) derived from [Neville](/source/Neville_(name)), may refer to:

## People

**British peerage**

- [Nevill baronets](/source/Nevill_baronets), two extinct creations, one of 1661 and one of 1675
- [House of Nevill](/source/House_of_Nevill) (Note: the spellings "Nevill" and "Neville" have both been used, often interchangeably)
- Viscount Nevill, a junior title of the [Marquess of Abergavenny](/source/Marquess_of_Abergavenny)
- [Edward Nevill, 7th Baron Bergavenny](/source/Edward_Nevill,_7th_Baron_Bergavenny) (c. 1526 - 1588)
- [Edward Nevill, 8th Baron Bergavenny](/source/Edward_Nevill,_8th_Baron_Bergavenny) (c. 1550 – 1622)
- [John Nevill, 10th Baron Bergavenny](/source/John_Nevill,_10th_Baron_Bergavenny) (c. 1614 - 1662)
- [Edward Nevill, 15th Baron Bergavenny](/source/Edward_Nevill,_15th_Baron_Bergavenny) (c. 1705 - 1724)
- [John Nevill, 3rd Earl of Abergavenny](/source/John_Nevill,_3rd_Earl_of_Abergavenny) (1789-1845)
- [William Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny](/source/William_Nevill,_4th_Earl_of_Abergavenny) (1792-1868)
- [Reginald Nevill, 2nd Marquess of Abergavenny](/source/Reginald_Nevill,_2nd_Marquess_of_Abergavenny) (1853-1927)
- [Lord Richard Nevill](/source/Lord_Richard_Nevill) (1862–1939)
- [Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny](/source/Guy_Larnach-Nevill,_4th_Marquess_of_Abergavenny) (1883-1954)
- [John Nevill, 5th Marquess of Abergavenny](/source/John_Nevill,_5th_Marquess_of_Abergavenny) (1914-2000)
- [Patricia Nevill, Marchioness of Abergavenny](/source/Patricia_Nevill,_Marchioness_of_Abergavenny) (1915-2005), friend and Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth II
- [Lord Rupert Nevill](/source/Lord_Rupert_Nevill) (1923-1982)
- [Christopher Nevill, 6th Marquess of Abergavenny](/source/Christopher_Nevill,_6th_Marquess_of_Abergavenny) (born 1955)

**Given name**

- [Nevill Catlin](/source/Nevill_Catlin) (1634-1702), English landowner and politician
- [Nevill Coghill (VC)](/source/Nevill_Coghill_(VC)) (1852-1879), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- [Nevill Coghill](/source/Nevill_Coghill) (1899-1980), English literary scholar, known for his modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's *Canterbury Tales*
- [Nevill Drury](/source/Nevill_Drury) (1947-2013), English-born Australian editor, publisher and author
- [John Nevill Eliot](/source/John_Nevill_Eliot) (died 2003), English entomologist
- [Philip Nevill Green](/source/Philip_Nevill_Green) (born 1953), British business executive
- [Nevill Lee](/source/Nevill_Lee) (1898-1978), English cricketer
- [Nevill Francis Mott](/source/Nevill_Francis_Mott) (1905-1996), English physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems
- [Nevill Smyth](/source/Nevill_Smyth) (1868-1941), major-general in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross
- [Nevill Vintcent](/source/Nevill_Vintcent) (1902–1942), South African aviator and airline founder
- [Nevill Willmer](/source/Nevill_Willmer) (1902-2001), British histologist

**Surname**

- [Adam Nevill](/source/Adam_Nevill) (born 1969), English writer of supernatural horror stories
- [Amanda Nevill](/source/Amanda_Nevill) (born 1957), English arts administrator
- [Arthur de Terrotte Nevill](/source/Arthur_de_Terrotte_Nevill) (1899-1985), New Zealand military aviator and administrator
- [Arthur Jones-Nevill](/source/Arthur_Jones-Nevill) (c. 1712 – 1771), Irish politician
- [Bernard Nevill](/source/Bernard_Nevill) (1930–2019), British designer and academic
- [Caroline Emily Nevill](/source/Caroline_Emily_Nevill) (1829–1887), early British photographer
- [Charles William Nevill](/source/Charles_William_Nevill) (1815-1888), Welsh owner of a copper smelting company and a Conservative Party politician
- [Christopher Nevill](/source/Christopher_Nevill) (1800-1847), English cricketer
- [Cosmo Nevill](/source/Cosmo_Nevill) (1907-2002), British Army officer
- [Craig Nevill-Manning](/source/Craig_Nevill-Manning) (active from 2001), New Zealand computer scientist
- [Lady Dorothy Nevill](/source/Lady_Dorothy_Nevill) (1826-1913), English writer, hostess, horticulturist and plant collector
- [Edmund Neville Nevill](/source/Edmund_Neville_Nevill) (1849-1940), British-born South African astronomer
- [Geoffrey Nevill](/source/Geoffrey_Nevill_(malacologist)) (died 1885), British malacologist who worked at the [Indian Museum](/source/Indian_Museum), Kolkata, brother of Hugh
- [Geoffrey Nevill](/source/Geoffrey_Nevill_(resident_commissioner)) (died 1972), New Zealand public servant and Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands
- [George Nevill (disambiguation)](/source/George_Nevill_(disambiguation)), multiple people
- [Henry Nevill (disambiguation)](/source/Henry_Nevill_(disambiguation)), multiple people
- [Hugh Nevill](/source/Hugh_Nevill) (1847-1897), British civil servant, known for his scholarship and studies of the culture of Sri Lanka, brother of Geoffrey
- [Jim Nevill](/source/Jim_Nevill) (1927-2007), British policeman, head of the Scotland Yard Bomb Squad
- [Luke Nevill](/source/Luke_Nevill) (born 1986), Australian basketball player
- [Mark Nevill](/source/Mark_Nevill) (born 1947), Australian politician
- [Mary Nevill (disambiguation)](/source/Mary_Nevill_(disambiguation)), multiple people
- [P. B. Nevill](/source/P._B._Nevill) (1887-1975), English scoutmaster, recipient of the Silver Wolf Award
- [Peter Nevill](/source/Peter_Nevill) (born 1985), Australian cricketer
- [Richard Nevill](/source/Richard_Nevill) (1654-1720), Irish politician
- [Richard Nevill (1743–1822)](/source/Richard_Nevill_(1743%E2%80%931822)), Irish politician
- [Samuel Nevill](/source/Samuel_Nevill) (1837–1921), first Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Dunedin in Dunedin, New Zealand
- Ted Nevill (active from 1989), British writer on military history
- [Thomas Nevill](/source/Thomas_Nevill) (by 1484 - 1542), English politician, of the House of Nevill
- [Thomas Nevill (priest)](/source/Thomas_Nevill_(priest)) (1901–1980), English Anglican priest and school teacher
- [Wilfred Nevill](/source/Wilfred_Nevill) (1894-1916), British soldier, known for initiating the "Football Charge" on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1916)
- [William Nevill (disambiguation)](/source/William_Nevill_(disambiguation)), multiple people

## Places

- [Nevill Bay](/source/Nevill_Bay), a waterway in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada
- [Nevill Ground](/source/Nevill_Ground), a cricket venue located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
- [Nevill Holt](/source/Nevill_Holt), a hamlet and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England - [Nevill Holt Opera](/source/Nevill_Holt_Opera), an arts festival held annually since 2013 at Nevill Holt

## Other uses

- *[The Nevill Feast](/source/The_Nevill_Feast)*, a single-movement orchestral composition of 2003 by American composer Christopher Rouse
- [Nevill Hall Hospital](/source/Nevill_Hall_Hospital), a district general hospital in Abergavenny, north Monmouthshire, Wales

## See also

- [Nevil (disambiguation)](/source/Nevil_(disambiguation))
- [Neville (disambiguation)](/source/Neville_(disambiguation))
- [Nevills (disambiguation)](/source/Nevills_(disambiguation))

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