44 PROCKKDINGS OT TlIF, 



The Ili^'Iit licv. Dr. Samuel TAituAiT dk 'J'kuuot Nkvill, the first 

 Bisliop of Dmiediii atul Primate of Kew Zealand from 191)4 to 

 1911), wad horn at Jieiitoii, near Xottinj^hani, on tlie KJLh of May, 

 18;j7, the third son of Jonathan Nevill, lace and hosiery \\aro- 

 honsonian, a house which afterwards hecame J. and li. IMorley. 

 The family descended from Hugh de IS'evill, named the Lion, a 

 lu'nefactt)r of Leiiton Abbey and owner of the land now forming 

 the site of Nottingham. After leaving school our late Fellow- 

 entered his father's business, but feeling drawn to holy orders, 

 entered 8t. Aidau's College, near Birkenhead, and in 18G0, he was 

 offered the curacy of IScarisbrick, Lancashire, where he sta) ed some 

 years, and during that period married Mary Susan Cook Penny, 

 daughter of James Penny, merchant, of Ileavitree, near Exeter. 

 One year later he became rector of 8helton, Staffordshire, where 

 he found the church in ruins, and the parish in a most deplorable 

 state of neglect, without schools or organizations of any sort, with 

 the people sunk in moral degradation. During his tenure of the 

 living he effected a remai-kable change in the parish; he repaired 

 the cliurch, tilled it with a congregation in ])lace of the former 

 half-dozen worship]iers, and greatly in)proved the general state of 

 things. While at Slielton, where he had four curates working 

 under him, he went up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where 

 he took his B.A. in second class honours in the Natural Science 

 Tripos in 1865, proceeding M.A. in 1868. Upon his election as 

 Bishop of Dunedin he received the honorary degree of D.D. at 

 Cambridge, and in 1906 became nn Honorary IVllow of his old 

 college. 



He was elected Pellow of the Linnean Society on the 7th 

 December, 1865, having in juirsuit of palaeontology dug in the 

 coprolite beds of the Lower Greensand near Cambridge, where 

 Saurian remains were plentiful ; his other subjects for his degree 

 ^vere : — Physics, Comparative Anatomy, with Mineralogy and 

 Crystallography as branches of Geology. L'nfortunately for him, 

 the Geological paper set had next to no questions on Palaeontology, 

 resulting in a second class only as stated above. 



In 1870 he left Sheltou Church in charge of his senior curate, 

 and the Bishop of Lichfield (Selwyn) having granted him a year's 

 leave of absence, Nevill and his wife paid a visit to New Zealand. 

 During this visit the Bev. S. T. Nevill was unanimously elected 

 Bishop of Dunedin, and was consecrated in the province, which 

 was followed by a return to England in 1871, returning to his 

 dioce?e in 1873, wlum strenuous labour became the usual 

 occupation. 



The constant exertions of the Bishop led to developments in 

 organization, and amongst them to the buikling of St. Paul's Cathe- 

 dral, the foundation stone being laid 8th June, 1915, ami conse- 

 cration took ])lace on the I'Jth J''ebruary, 1919, and shortly 

 afterwards BisIiop Nevill laid down his functions, after 48 years 

 as Bishop, and 15 years as Primate of New Zealand. 



