In 1824 he entered the Royal Navy, and for his services on board HMS Talbot at the battle of Navarino in 1827 was awarded a medal.
[1] On 17 Jan. 1833 Neale became a student of Lincoln's Inn, but subsequently migrated to the Middle Temple, where he was called to the bar on 25 November 1836.
He went the Oxford circuit, and practised also at Shropshire and Staffordshire sessions.
), London, 1833 (two editions), and, with Basil Montagu, a handbook on the Law of Parliamentary Elections, 2 pts.
[1] Neale married, on 12 December 1846, Frances Herbert, daughter of Captain Josiah Nisbet, R.N., and eldest grandchild of Viscountess Nelson.