Julius Arthur Sheffield Neave CBE, JP

Justice of the Peace

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, DL (Essex)

Deputy Lieutenant

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 (17 July 1919 – 30 October 2008) was an English insurance executive

Insurance

In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. An insurer is a company selling the...

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Julius Neave was educated at Sherborne

Sherborne School

Sherborne School is a British independent school for boys, located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. It is one of the original member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....

 and he was commissioned to the 13th/18th Hussars

13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)

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, with whom he saw active service as a Major. The politician

Politician

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 Airey Neave

Airey Neave

Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave DSO, OBE, MC was a British soldier, barrister and politician.During World War II, Neave was one of the few servicemen to escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle...

 was a first cousin.

He was the General Manager

General manager

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 of Mercantile and General Reinsurance and was a leading figure in the Lloyd's of London insurance market

Lloyd's of London

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He died peacefully in Ingatestone, Essex

Ingatestone

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 in October 2008, aged 89 leaving a widow, the New Zealand-born

New Zealand

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Helen (Sen) Acton-Adams (whom he had married in 1951) and their three daughters Pepe, Miranda and Venetia.