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Neville, Richard Henry Cornwallis (1918-1943), 8th Baron Braybrooke, Visitor of Magdalene College, Cambridge
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Dates of existence
13 July 1918 - 23 January 1943
History
Born at Audley End, the son of 7th Lord Braybrooke and Dorothy Edith Lawson.
Educated at Eton.
Admitted to Magdalene as a Pensioner in October 1937 to study Classics.
Succeeded on the death of his father in 1941 to become 8th Baron Braybrooke and Visitor of Magdalene College.
We served as a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War and was killed on active service in Tunisia on 23 January 1943. He is buried in the Medjez el Bab Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery.