Reginald Neville
Sir Reginald James Neville Neville (22 February 1863 – died 28 April 1950) was a British barrister and Conservative and Unionist member of parliament. He was created a baronet in 1927.
Early life
Neville was the elder son of James Sewell Neville, a barrister who became a Judge of the High Court of Calcutta, in India. While the family seat was at Sloley Hall, Norfolk, he was born in Bombay, British India, in 1863, and later educated at Charterhouse School, where he was a Scholar, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the Winchester Reading Prize.[1]
Career
Neville was called to the bar from the Inner Temple in 1887, following in his father's footsteps. He was appointed as Recorder of Bury St Edmunds in 1905, a position he held until 1943.[1]
In 1892 he first stood for parliament, contesting South Leeds, where he continued as the Conservative and Unionist candidate at the general elections of 1895 and 1900, and at a by-election in 1908. At the January 1910 election, he stood unsuccessfully in Wigan, but was finally elected as a Unionist Member of Parliament for Wigan at the second 1910 election, gaining the seat from a Labour member. He lost this seat back to the Labour Party in December 1918 (the 'Khaki Election'), and in 1923 stood unsuccessfully in South Leeds again, meeting his fifth defeat there. He was then selected as Unionist candidate for East Norfolk, where he was successful at the 1924 election, holding the seat until 1929. In that year he became a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Bowyers.[1]
In 1927, Neville was created a baronet. He was a member of the Carlton Club and the United University Club.[1]
When he died in 1950, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his elder son, Lieut. Col. James Edmund Henderson Neville MC, author of The War Letters of a Light Infantryman (1931), who also wrote under the pen-name of 'Gaid Sakit'.[1][2]