Sheffield Neave (1799–1868) was an English merchant and Governor of the Bank of England from 1857 to 1859.
[1][2] He was the son of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, Frances Digby, daughter of William Digby, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
He replaced Thomas Matthias Weguelin as Governor and was succeeded by Bonamy Dobrée.
In June 2020, the Bank of England issued a public apology for the involvement of Neave, amongst other employees, in the slave trade following the investigation by the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership at UCL.
[4] Neave married Mary, daughter of David Richard Morier.