Francis Webb Neate (born 13 May 1940) is a former English cricketer and a lawyer who served as president of the International Bar Association in 2005 and 2006.
[11] After graduating from Oxford with a BA in Jurisprudence, Neate studied at the University of Chicago Law School, gaining a JD.
[13] He received the 2011 City of London Law Society Lifetime Achievement Award "in recognition of his long and distinguished legal career".
[17] His younger brother Patrick played a single first-class match for Oxford University in 1966, as well as Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire from 1964 to 1979.
[18] Their father, also called Francis Webb Neate, played Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire in 1932 and 1933.