Lord Richard Nevill
Lord Richard Plantagenet Nevill, CMG, CVO, DL was a British courtier who served in the households numerous Australian state governors, as well as the governor-generals of Australia and Canada.
Early life
Lord Richard was born on 13 January 1862 as the fifth son of William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny and the former Caroline Vanden-Bempdé Johnstone. Among his siblings were Lady Cicely Louisa Nevill, Reginald Nevill, 2nd Marquess of Abergavenny, Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny, Lord George Montacute Nevill, Lady Alice Maud Nevill, Lord William Beauchamp Nevill, Lady Idina Mary Nevill, Lady Rose Nevill, and Lady Violet Nevill.His mother was a daughter of Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet and Louisa Augusta Venables-Vernon-Harcourt.
He was educated at Eton College and graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Career
He first went to Australia as private secretary to Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, Governor of Victoria, followed by spells as secretary and aide-de-camp to Sir John Madden, Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria, to Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, Governor of South Australia, to Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote and the William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley as governor-generals of Australia, and as chamberlain to Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman, Governor-General of Australia from 1911 to 1914, and Comptroller of the Household to the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and the Duke of Devonshire from 1914 to 1921, whilst they were governor-generals of Canada.Personal life
In 1933, he was declared bankrupt, having "not been free from moneylenders for forty years"; he discharged his bankruptcy later that year.He died unmarried on 1 December 1939.