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Nevill

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Nevill is an English toponymic surname derived from Neville, may refer to:

People

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British peerage
Given name
  • Nevill Catlin (1634-1702), English landowner and politician
  • Nevill Coghill (VC) (1852-1879), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Nevill Coghill (1899-1980), English literary scholar, known for his modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  • Nevill Drury (1947-2013), English-born Australian editor, publisher and author
  • John Nevill Eliot (died 2003), English entomologist
  • Philip Nevill Green (born 1953), British business executive
  • Nevill Lee (1898-1978), English cricketer
  • Nevill Francis Mott (1905-1996), English physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems
  • Nevill Smyth (1868-1941), major-general in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Nevill Vintcent (1902–1942), South African aviator and airline founder
  • Nevill Willmer (1902-2001), British histologist
Surname

Places

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  • Nevill Bay, a waterway in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada
  • Nevill Ground, a cricket venue located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
  • Nevill Holt, a hamlet and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England

Other uses

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  • The Nevill Feast, a single-movement orchestral composition of 2003 by American composer Christopher Rouse
  • Nevill Hall Hospital, a district general hospital in Abergavenny, north Monmouthshire, Wales

See also

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