Born at Brighton, 3 February 1861, fourth son and seventh, youngest child of David Neve, merchant, and his wife Mary Jane Wibmer. He was educated at Brighton Grammar School, and after two years in Germany he entered Edinburgh University 1879, having already felt a vocation for the medical mission-field, which his elder brother Arthur had entered. He was awarded the gold medal and the Goodsir prize at the MD examination 1885 and served as demonstrator of anatomy and senior assistant in pathology at the university, and was senior ophthalmic assistant at the Royal Infirmary. He prepared himself for a missionary career by taking the post of resident house officer at the Livingstone memorial training-centre, Edinburgh. He joined his brother, Arthur Neve, MD (1858-1919), at Srinagar, Kashmir in 1886, working at the Church Missionary Society's Hospital, to which he eventually became consulting surgeon in 1923. While working in India he won the Gunning-Lister prize from Edinburgh University in 1889. In 1892 he founded the Kashmir Government Leper Asylum and was for many years its honorary superintendent. Neve was an excellent administrator and a general surgeon who accomplished a great deal of sound work, while living as a devout Christian in a predominantly Muslim country. During the 1914-18 war he held the rank of captain in the Indian Defence Force Medical Corps. He was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal, first class, in 1918 for his public service, and was later elected a vice-president of the Church Missionary Society. He was elected a Fellow of the College, as a member of twenty years' standing, in 1931. He was at one time president of the Kashmir Medical Association. Neve was a voluminous writer, who contributed a number of important papers on a very wide variety of surgical topics to the *Edinburgh medical Journal*, the *Indian medical Gazette*, the *British medical Journal*, *The Lancet*, and other periodicals. He wrote a memoir of his brother and collaborator, Dr Arthur Neve, a guide to Kashmir, accounts of life there, and grammars of the Kashmiri language. He had a great love and knowledge of his adopted country, and was a leading mountaineer. He was a foundation member of the Himalayan Club and made the first ascents of Kolahoi, 17,839 feet, and other Kashmiri peaks. Neve married in 1915 Jean Sophia, daughter of T G C Browne, a director of the Guardian Assurance Society. He retired from medical work in 1934, but continued to live at Sonawar Bagh, Srinagar, where he died on 6 February 1946, aged 85, survived by his wife. They had no children. Select Bibliography: Case of rapid acute meningitis with death. *Lancet*, 1883, 1, 586. Trophic ulceration of the cornea, following erysipelas of the face. *Brit med J* 1886, 1, 201. The nature and etiology of bone-disease in Kashmir. *Ind med J* 1888, 8, 431-438. The conservative surgery of long-bones. *Ind med J* 1888, 8, 481-490; 1889, 9, 1-9. Leprosy in Kashmir, distribution and etiology. *Lancet*, 1889, 2, 900, etc. An inquiry into the regeneration, after sub-periosteal resection, of a portion of the shaft of a long-bone. *Edinb med J* 1889-90, 35, 719-726. Remarks on the diagnosis of divergent enteric fever. *Amer J med Sci* 1890, 100, 358-365. Remarks on atrophy and certain degenerative, infiltrative diseases of the pancreas and their relation to diabetes mellitus. *Ind med Rec* 1891, 2, 97-100. The mortality of 10,000 general surgical operations in the Kashmir mission hospital, with A Neve. *Lancet*, 1891, 2, 171. Bone and joint disease, a sequel of certain specific fevers, especially smallpox. *Amer J med Sci* 1891, 101, 460-470. Glandular tuberculosis and its operative treatment. *Amer J med Sci* 1892, 103, 625-633. Clinical remarks on operative treatment of vesical calculus. *Edinb Hosp Rep* 1895, 3, 574-582. Hysterical aphasia cured by the administration of chloroform. *Brit med J* 1898, 2, 898. Remarks on the surgical treatment of cataract, based on 730 cases of extraction. *Ind med Rec* 1898, 15, 281. Ten years' surgical work at the Mission Hospital, Kashmir. *Ind med Gaz* 1900, 35, 161, etc. A decade of tumour surgery in the Kashmir mission hospital. *Ind med Gaz* 1902, 37, 164. On the surgical treatment of prostatic disease. *Ind med Gaz* 1906, 41, 216. The etiology of rickets. *Brit med J* 1919, 1, 518. Caesarian section in osteomalacia. *Practitioner*, 1919, 103, 453. Treatment of tuberculous glands. *Ibid* 1923, 111, 362. Kangri-burn cancer. *Brit med J* 1923, 2, 1255. Raw pancreas in diabetes mellitus. *Ibid* 1926, 1, 476. Causation of cancer. *Practitioner*, 1929, 122, 355. *Beyond the Pir Panjal, life among the mountains and valleys of Kashmir*. London, 1911; new edition, 1914. *A crusader in Kashmir, the life of Dr Arthur Neve, with an account of the medical missionary work*. London, 1928. *Things seen in Kashmir*. London, 1931. *Tourist's guide to Kashmir, Ladakh, Skardo, etc*, by Arthur Neve revised by E F Neve. Lahore, 14th edition, 1927; 16th edition, 1938.