Samuel Tarratt Nevill (13 May 1837 – 29 October 1921),[1] was the first Anglican Bishop of Dunedin, before becoming Primate of New Zealand.
[4] Ordained in 1860 as Curate of St Mark's, Scarisbrick,[5] he then became Rector of Shelton, Staffordshire,[6] where he was incumbent until being elevated to the episcopate.
Dr Nevill died at Bishopsgrove, near Dunedin, New Zealand being buried at St Barnabas Church, Warrington.
The Nevill Chapel of St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin is named in his memory; St Paul's has a carving depicting the Lord Bishop holding a model of the Cathedral's proposed design[9] Nevill married first, at Heavitree, Devon, in 1863, Mary Susannah Cook Penny (a relative of the Viscounts Marchwood), 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 Dukes of Newcastle; he had no children by either marriage,[10][11] 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.