Sir Digby Neave, 3rd Baronet

[4] Related by marriage to Abel Rous Dottin—Neave's father-in-law was Dottin's brother-in-law—he attended the initial meeting for the London and Greenwich Railway in October 1831.

Another meeting to deal with Nottinghamshire Poor Law union issues, in the context of local politics and personalities, was with Robert Lowe at Bingham.

[14] Edwin Chadwick sought material with which to advocate against the Cheshire Constabulary, set up in 1829, and Neave supplied it.

[15] The 1837 general election caused local resistance in Cheshire to poor law reform, which Neave characterised as "backsliding".

[16] In implementing the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, he failed to reform the Chester workhouse, which continued on the old basis to the 1860s.

[19] Constable stayed with him at Epsom;[20] this was at Pitt Place, which at that date, 1831, was leased by Neave from Rowland Stephenson.

[26] Four Days in Connemara (1852), a post-Irish Famine travelogue by Neave, was called "more polemical than topographical" by The Athenaeum.