George Nevill, 1st Earl of Abergavenny

George Nevill, 1st Earl of Abergavenny (24 June 1727 – 9 September 1785), known as Lord Bergavenny from 1744 to 1784, was an English peer.

He married into a branch of the Pelham family seated at Stanmer and briefly held office as Lord Lieutenant of Sussex.

He was born on 24 June 1727 at Kidbrooke Park in Forest Row,[1] the oldest son of William Nevill, 16th Baron Bergavenny, and his wife Katharine Tatton.

[2] He succeeded his father as Baron Bergavenny on 21 September 1744, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 21 February 1744/5.

This biography of an earl in the peerage of Great Britain is a stub.

Henrietta Pelham married Hon. Richard Temple M.P. (c. 1726–1749) in 1748, but he died of smallpox . Four years later she married the Baron Bergavenny. ( William Hoare of Bath )