{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Ronald Thomas Dalton Neville.png
| office1 = Member of the National Parliament | term1 = 1968–1977 | predecessor1 = | successor1 = Wiwa Korowi | constituency1 = Southern Highlands Provincial
| term3 = 1964–1968 | constituency3 = West Papua Special
| birth_date = 2 December 1929 | birth_place = Moree, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|1986|5|31|1929|12|2|df=y}} | death_place = Papua New Guinea }}
'''Ronald Thomas Dalton Neville''' {{post-nominals|MBE}} (2 December 1929 – 31 May 1986) was an Australia-born Papua New Guinean politician and businessman. He served as a member of the House of Assembly and National Parliament from 1964 to 1977.
==Biography== Neville was born in December 1929 in Moree, New South Wales and was educated at De La Salle College in Armidale and Saint Ignatius' College in Sydney.<ref name=M1/> After leaving school in 1947,<ref name=M1/> he earned a diploma from the Australian School of Pacific Administration.<ref name=M3/> He then joined the Department of Native Affairs in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea as a cadet patrol officer in 1948.<ref name=M3/> He served in Milne Bay, Morobe, Sepik and Southern Highlands, rising to become a Senior Assistant District Officer.<ref name=M1>''Members of the House of Assembly'', p27</ref> He also married Colleen Wren and had six children.<ref name=M3>''Members of the Third House of Assembly'', p53</ref><ref>[https://www.pngaa.net/Vale/vale_june86.htm#Neville R T (Ron) NEVILLE (31 May 1986, aged 56)] PNGAA</ref>
In 1963 Neville resigned from the civil service to contest the first elections to the House of Assembly in February–March 1964. He was elected from the West Papua Special constituency, defeating incumbent MLC Ron Slaughter.<ref name=M1/> During his first term in parliament he served as vice chairman of the Public Accounts and Public Works committees.<ref name=M2>''Members of the Second House of Assembly'', p49</ref> He was re-elected unopposed in the 1968 elections from the Southern Highlands Regional constituency,<ref name=PIM3>[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-326941531/view?partId=nla.obj-326947813#page/n25/mode/1up Plenty of variety in P-NG's second general election] ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', February 1968, p24</ref> and served on the District Advisory committee.<ref name=M2/> He was re-elected again in 1972 from the renamed Southern Highlands Provincial constituency, and was awarded an MBE in the 1974 Birthday Honours. Following independence in 1975, the House of Assembly was renamed the National Parliament.<ref>[https://www.parliament.gov.pg/about/parliament About Our Parliament] ''National Parliament of Papua New Guinea''</ref>
He retired from politics prior to the 1977 elections to concentrate on his business. He died in May 1986 when a truck he was driving hit a bus on the road between Mendi and Mount Hagen.<ref>[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-335593893/view?partId=nla.obj-335626960#page/n50/mode/1up Transitions] ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', July 1986, p51</ref> His son Tim later also became an MP.<ref>[https://www.postcourier.com.pg/neville-brothers-to-contest-seats-in-milne-bay/ Neville brothers to contest seats in Milne Bay] ''Papua New Guinea Post-Courier'', 2 May 2022</ref>
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