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Lieutenant Colonel Sir James Edmund Henderson Neville MC Master 1947-1949
Lieutenant Colonel Sir James Edmund Henderson Neville MC, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Staff Officer at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
Born on the 5th July 1897, the son of Reginald James Neville M.P. and his wife Ida, nee Henderson, he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. Served in France and Russia during the First World War with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and wrote of his experiences in 'The War Letters of a Light Infantryman', published in 1931. He also wrote a history of his regiment in later life.
Between 1931-1946 he was re-employed in the 12th London Regiment, and was put in command of the L1 Training Centre, 1941-1944. Meanwhile in 1932 he married Marie Louise Pierson and had two daughters, Rosalind Angela Mary and Jane Shirley.
In 1936 he became a Master of the Bowyers' Company and in 1947 was elected to the Court of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy of Sloley in 1950.
He was a man of wide and varied interests being a member of Smallburgh Rural District Council, a Governor of Gresham's School, Holt, a member of the Norfolk Rural Industries Committee and one of the founders of the Norfolk Churches' Trust. He engaged in much genealogical research and had a special interest in his mother's family, the Hendersons. He wrote profusely, keeping a journal for most of his life, and also writing short articles under his pen-name, Gaid Sakit.
In 1981 he married his second wife, Mrs. Betty Cowell. He died in June 1982.
