Lady Nevile, OBE, who died 31 December, 2022, aged 99, was chatelaine of Aubourn Hall, a 16th-century manor house, near Lincoln. She was the widow of Sir Henry Nevile, KCVO (1920-1996), a Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire for 20 years.
The family seat at Aubourn Hall was designed by architect James Smythson, was built for Sir John Meres between 1587 and 1628. It has been the home of the Nevile family since the 17th century.
She was born in 1923, the former Jean Rosita Mary Torr, daughter of Cyril James Wenceslas Torr and wife the former Maude Mary Winifred Walpole (1897-1968) (later wife of Vicomte Théophile de Lantsheere).
She married in 1944, Henry Nicholas Nevile (born 13 March, 1920), scion of that landed gentry family, the elder son of Charles Joseph Nevile (1883–1930), of Wellingore in Lincolnshire, and his wife Muriel Margaret, daughter of the diplomat Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor, GCB, GCMG. Her husband was Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, 1975-1995, and appointed KCVO in 1992. He died 20 Oct, 1996.
Lady Nevile leaves issue, two sons, Christopher and Hugh, and three daughters, Sarah, Elizabeth and Jill.
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