Richard Neville Aldworth Neville

He later contributed to William Coxe's Literary life and Select works of Benjamin Stillingfleet (1811).

He was appointed under-secretary of state for the southern department on 13 February 1748, under Bedford, and held office till his chief's resignation, 12 July 1751.

Bedford was acting as British plenipotentiary at the conference then summoned to consider the terms of peace between England and France in the Seven Years' War.

Walpole credited Neville with causing a delay in the signature of the preliminaries, till the capture of Havana had become known.

[1] Neville soon returned to Paris to act as plenipotentiary until the arrival of the Earl of Hertford, Bedford's successor, in May 1763.

While he was at Compiègne in August, John Wilkes visited him; Louis XVI gave him his picture set with diamonds.