Samuel Tarratt Nevill (13 May 183729 October 1921), was the first

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of Dunedin, before becoming

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Life

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of the ancient Nevilles, he was educated at

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, before attending

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, and briefly

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. He was

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in 1860 and then went up to

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, where he graduated B.A. (second-class Natural Science Tripos) in 1865, proceeding

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in 1868, and received D.D. in 1871.

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in 1860 as

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of St Mark's, Scarisbrick, he then became Rector of

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, where he was

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until being elevated to the

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. Whilst there, Nevill also held a

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of the

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, qualifying him to instruct candidates for examination in the Education Department, and was thus instrumental in laying the foundation of the career of some who have attained positions of eminence. In 1871 Nevill accepted the

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and was

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in the

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by Bishop Harper, Primate of New Zealand and Bishops

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of Nelson, Hadfield of Wellington, and Williams of Waiapu. He served as

from 1904 until 1919 (acting

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since 1902), being twice called to attend the

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. With family money he founded

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in 1893. Dr Nevill died at Bishopsgrove, near

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being buried at St Barnabas Church, Warrington. At his death, he was the senior bishop in the

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. The Nevill Chapel of St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin is named in his memory; St Paul's has a carving depicting the

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holding a model of the Cathedral's proposed design Nevill married first, at Heavitree, Devon, in 1863, Mary Susannah Cook Penny (a relative of the

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), who died in 1905. In 1906, he married second Rosalind Fynes-Clinton (died 1972), daughter of Rev Canon Geoffrey Fynes-Clinton (1847–1934), a distant cousin of the

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; he had no children by either marriage, but acted as the adoptive father of his brother Edmund Berrey Nevill's son, Edmund Robert Nevill (1862-1933), following his brother's untimely death in 1875.Matriculation Register of Lincoln College, Oxford: entry for Edmund Robert Nevill (matriculated 1883). Accessed 11 July 202
via College archive website

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nevill, Samuel Tarratt 1837 births 1921 deaths Clergy from Nottingham Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge British expatriates in New Zealand Sub-Prelates of the Venerable Order of Saint John 19th-century Anglican bishops in New Zealand Anglican bishops of Dunedin 20th-century Anglican archbishops in New Zealand Primates of New Zealand People educated at Nottingham High School

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