Lord Rupert Nevill

Who was Lord Rupert Nevill?

Lord Rupert Nevill, CVO, DL, JP was the younger son of Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny, and was vice-chairman of the National Playing-Fields Association from 1963, and Chairman of the British Olympic Association from 1966. He was president of the National YMCA from 1966, and of the Metropolitan Union of YMCA from 1956, and a member of the World Council of YMCA from 1956. Chairmanships included the Invalid Children's Aid Association, and the Sussex Army Cadets. He was a member of the Sussex St John's Council from 1952, and President of the Sussex St John Ambulance Brigade, the South Eastern Area Building Society, the South Eastern Area TSB, and the Sussex St John Ambulance Cadets. He was vice-president of the Building Societies Association, and the Sussex Boy Scouts and Sussex Boys' Clubs.

Lord Rupert was Treasurer to the Duke of Edinburgh from 1970 to 1982 and his Private Secretary from 1976 to 1982.

Lord Rupert was a Justice of Peace of Sussex from 1953 and Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex in 1960. Lord Rupert was High Sheriff of Sussex for 1952-1953. He was a member of the Uckfield Rural District Council 1949-1967, and of the Sussex County Council 1954-1967.