Catherine Grenville [Neville]

Catherine Grenville, sister of Nugent Buckingham and aunt of the first Duke. See family tree. 

She was a nervous woman and easily scandalised by mild profanities, such as 'damn' and 'bottom' (HEH ST 98 Vol 1). 

• Born 23 November 1762
• Married Richard Aldworth Neville Griffin, 19 June 1790; of Billingbear and Stanlake Berkshire and, after 1797, Audley End; later second Baron Braybrooke
• Children: 
  • Richard: (26 September 1783 to13 March 1858)
  • George: Hon & Very Rev. George Neville Grenville (17 August 1789 to 10 June 1854); heir to James Grenville. 
  • Henry: (1796 to 1809)
• Died 6 November 1796 

Leighton on Charlotte

Of Charlotte [Grenville’s] three sisters and their children the first to marry after herself was Catherine, the youngest, who in 1780 became the wife of Mr. George Neville. She had ten children in quick succession, starting with twins who died within twenty-four hours of their birth. Mary, her second daughter, born in 1786, married Sir Stephen Glynne, and became the mother of Stephen the last baronet, and of Catherine, afterwards the wife of the Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone. Mrs. Neville died in 1796, the year before her husband succeeded to the barony of Braybrooke, on the death of his kinsman, the fourth Lord Howard de Walden.

The three Neville sons to reach man’s estate, Richard, Henry, and George, were very intimate cousins and companions to Charlotte’s younger children. Richard and her youngest son Henry were born within a few months of each other, and as schoolboys, the one at Harrow and the other at Eton, kept up a regular correspondence. Both had literary tastes, and were very keen collectors of books, discussing with each other the special editions and prices, and sharing the joys of the new acquisition of some coveted volume. Richard’s taste in literature developed, and he earned a reputation for himself as the first editor of Pepys’ Diaries.

The youngest Neville daughter, Caroline, married Beilby Lawley Thompson, who in 1839 became first Baron Wenlock.

Leighton is incorrect. This is Richard Aldworth Neville.