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NEDHAM, WILLIAM, son of William Dandy Nedham (qv), and his second wife; b. 18 Mar 1770; adm. 12 Jan 1778; in school lists 1781; Ensign, 37th Foot 27 May 1786, retd. 26 Aug 1786; Lieut., 17th Foot 10 Sep 1788; Capt., 15 Jul 1794; Capt., 9th Light Dragoons 1 Jan 1798; Maj., 14 Jul 1800; Lieut. -Col., 12th bn. Reserve 28 Aug 1804; Brevet Col., 4 Jun 1813; half-pay 24 Sep 1817; Major-Gen., 12 Aug 1819; Col., 4th Royal Veteran Bn., 1 Nov 1819; retd. 1842; MP (I) Athenry 1798-1800; m. 1st, 4 Oct 1792 (IGI) Lucinda, widow of Capt. William Campbell Skinner (IGI), Royal Engineers, and dau. of George Strode, Wookey, Somerset; m. 2nd, 13 Aug 1810 Marianne, second dau. of Rev. Aaron Abraham Baker DCL, Rector of Marksbury, Somerset; d. 13 Feb 1844.

NEDHAM, WILLIAM DANDY, son of Hampson Nedham, Mount Olive, Jamaica, barrister, and Martha, dau. of John Dubber, Witney, Oxfordshire; b. 23 Sep 1730; adm. Jun 1746 (Preston's); left 1748; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1748, aged 17; adm. Inner Temple 3 Aug 1748; Speaker, House of Assembly, Jamaica 1766; m. 1st, 4 Jun 1760 Mary, widow of Vere Hicks, Jamaica, and dau. of John Morant, Brockenhurst, Hampshire; m. 2nd, 7 Apr 1769 Eleanor, dau. of Archibald Aikenhead, Stirling Castle, Jamaica; d. 1811.

NEDHAM, SAMUEL, eighth son of Francis Nedham, Gaddesby, Leics., and Dorothy, dau. of William Chamberlaine, Tilton, Leics.; b.; adm.; KS 1665; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Oct 1667, Jermyn scholar 1668; BA 1671/2; MA 1675; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1674 – c. 1686; ordained; Rector of Dickleburgh, Norfolk, from 1684; m. 1691 Lydia, dau. of Rev. John Ward, Warlingworth, Suffolk; buried Dickleburgh, Norfolk 31 Mar 1724.

NEDHAM, ROBERT, son of William Dandy Nedham (qv), and his second wife; b. 19 Nov 1772; adm. 29 Mar 1780; Midshipman, Royal Navy; d. 1790.

NEDHAM, JOHN, son of William Dandy Nedham (qv), and his second wife; b. 7 Jan 1774; adm. 19 Apr 1781; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Dec 1793; BA 1797; migrated to Peterhouse, Cambridge; MA 1803; ordained (by 1798); Rector of Mundesley, Norfolk, and of Owmby, Lincs., from 3 Dec 1802; m. 27 Aug 1798 Elizabeth Lack, Park Street, Grosvenor Square; d. 31 Dec 1822. [Already of Mundesley on marriage]

NECTON, JAMES; b.; adm.; QS ; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1584, adm. scholar 1585, matr. Mich. 1584. [Possibly James Necton, Monken Hadley, Middlesex, adm. Gray’s Inn 4 Nov 1586, called to bar 20 Nov 1595; name last appears in Gray’s Inn Pension Book on 8 Nov 1616].

Neave, David Peter Bremner, son of David Neave, artist, and Maud Louisa, d. of Capt. Herbert Evan Becher of Potchefstroom, S. Africa; b. 26 Feb. 1911; adm. Jan. 1925 (H); left July 1927; Univ. of London, BSc; Lieut. RAOC 1939, p.o.w. Crete 1941; transf. REME Oct. 1942, despatches Dec. 1945; a chartered engineer, FIEE MIMechE; Bush Radio Ltd 1946-69, chief engmeer 1960; dep. dir. engineering Rank Bush Murphy 1969, dir. Rank Radio International 1974-6; m. 16 July 1938 Nancy Wreford, d. of Burnell Townsend Huggins of Johannesburg; d. May 2003.

NEATE, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1744/5 (Hawkins')

NEATE, RICHARD; elder son of Richard Neate (adm. 1745/6, qv); b.; adm. 10 Jun 1774; Ensign, 18th Foot 12 Jan 1781; Lieut., 10 Aug 1782; half-pay 1783; restored to active list as Lieut., 18th Foot 21 Feb 1785; Capt., Independent Co. Foot; half-pay 1791; Capt., 57th Foot 8 Nov 1798; Brevet Maj., with rank as from 1 Jan 1798; served at Gibraltar; m.; d. at Trinidad, West Indies, of yellow fever, 7 Nov 1800. [perhaps m. 10 Aug 1790 Elizabeth Ansald Neate (IGI)]