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Saturday, April 19, 2025

David Michael Ralph Nevill 1941-2025

 David Michael Ralph Nevill, who died at Tunbridge Wells, on 20 March, 2025, aged 83, was a descendant of the noble house of Nevill, and heir presumptive to the earldom of Abergavenny, held by his cousin, the 6th Marquess of Abergavenny.

He was born 20 June, 1941, the elder son of Michael George Ralph Nevill (1917-1943), who was killed in action in North Africa, by his wife the former Maureen Ethné David Rhodes (1920-2002), daughter of Maj (Arthur) Tahu Gravenor Rhodes, MVO (c1894-1947) and his wife the former Hon Helen Cecil Olive Plunket (1895-1968),  daughter of the 5th Baron Plunket (1864-1920) and Lady Victoria Alexandrina Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (1873-1968), scion of the Marquesses of Dufferin & Ava.

Mr Nevill, of Birling Place, Kent, married 16 March, 1972, Katherine Mary Westenra, daughter of Rossmore Derrick Westenra, of Christchurch, New Zealand, by whom he had issue, a son, Guy Michael Rossmore Nevill (born 12 November, 1973), who is now heir pres to the Abergavenny earldom, and two daughters, Anna Louise (b 16 Feb, 1976), and Georgina Rose (b 16 May, 1981).

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