Researching Robert Neville
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 3559 people with the Neville surname? In that year Neville was ranked number 1176 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Robert means "bright fame" and is of English origin.
Records of Robert Neville on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Robert Neville and the Neville Family Tree
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Some Famous People called Robert Neville
Robert Neville (bishop)
Robert Neville (1404 – 8 or 9 July 1457) was an English prelate who served as Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham. He was also a provost of Beverley. He was born at Raby Castle. His father was Ralph Neville and his mother was Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt. He was thus a highly placed member of the English aristocracy.
Neville was nominated Bishop of Salisbury on 9 July 1427, and consecrated on 26 October 1427. He was then translated to Durham on 27 January 1438.
Neville died on 8 July 1457.
Source: Robert Neville (bishop), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRobert Cummings Neville
Robert Cummings Neville (born May 1, 1939, in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) is an American systematic philosopher and theologian, author of numerous books and papers, and ex-Dean of the Boston University School of Theology. J. Harley Chapman and Nancy Frankenberry, editors of a festchrift—a collection of critical essays written in Neville's honor—entitled Interpreting Neville, consider him to be "one of the most significant philosophers and theologians of our time". Neville was Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and has taught at Yale, Fordham, and the State University of New York Purchase. He is now a professor at Boston University He was granted a Doctorate honoris causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Far Eastern Studies in 1996.
Source: Robert Cummings Neville, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Neville
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