Henry Neville (1620–1694) was an English politician, author and satirist, best remembered for his tale of shipwreck and dystopia, The Isle of Pines published in 1668.
At an early age, he married Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of Richard Staverton of Heathley Hall in Warfield which became the couple's country estate.
[1] Henry spent some of the period of the English Civil War travelling on the European continent, returning to England in 1645.
In 1660s, Neville travelled in Italy where he befriended with Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Florentine courtiers.
[2] After the Restoration, he was arrested for treasonable practices in October 1663; he was suspected of involvement in the "Yorkshire rising", also known as the Farnley Wood Plot, and held in the Tower of London (his grandfather was there before him).
He wanted parliament to persuade Charles, by reason or insistence to hand over the functions of government to the House of Commons.
[2] Mahlberg, Gaby, Henry Neville and English republican culture in the seventeenth century: Dreaming of another Game, Manchester, 2009.