Sir Richard Neave 1st Bart.

London merchant, father of Sir Thomas Neave (q.v.) and purchase and redeveloper of Dagnam Park in Essex. Left £150,000 at death. His sons-in-law included Beeston Long and the Rev. George Trevelyan.

1. Will of Sir Richard Neave of Dagnam Park proved 03/03/1814. In terms of property in the Caribbean, he secured an annuity to his wife of £2200 p.a. on estates in England and on a piece of land in Antigua that he said he had bought of Gilbert Francklyn and that was leased to the government [in a codicil he left a further £10,000 in trust as additional security for her annuity]. His main heir was his son Thomas, but he left all his interest in 'a certain plantation, negroes premises with their appurtenances in the island of St Vincent' that he had bought jointly with John Purling and Thomas Fitzhugh to his son Richard, and his property and enslaved people on Dominica to his son John. He left monetary legacies to his daughters, including adding £2000 to the £6000 already committed under the marriage settlement of his daughter Harriet Trevelyan (q.v.).

W.D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? A biographical directory of British wealth-holders Vol. 1 1809-1839 (2009) p. 74 reference 1814/8. Simon Donoghue and Don Tait, Harold Hill and Noak Hill: a history (Havering: London Borough of Havering Library Service, 2013) contains much information on the legacies of the 5 generations of the Neave family who lived on the Dagnam Park estate between 1772 and 1940. Dagnams, the house built by Sir Richard Neave between 1772 and 1776, was demolished in 1950. The merchant firm of Richard Neave & Son of Mark Lane, which failed in 1777, appears to have been a separate family, or at least a separate branch, London Gazette 11814 14 October 1777 p. 3.

1. PROB 11/1554/36.