Born 26 September 1887 at Allepy, Travancore, South India, the third child and only son, in a family of four, of the Rev Clement Alfred Neve, clerk in Holy Orders, and his wife, a sister of Sir Frederick Treves, FRCS. He was educated at St Michael's School, Limpsfield, and at Repton. He entered Repton in September 1901 and left in December 1904 after gaining an exhibition, the Rev W Mordaunt Furneaux, DD, afterwards Dean of Winchester, being the head master. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Kirkes prize and the gold medal in clinical medicine of the University of London. He acted as house surgeon to D'Arcy Power for the year ending October 1912, having already been house physician at the East London Hospital for Children at Shadwell. His house surgeoncy being finished, he was appointed resident medical officer at the National Temperance Hospital. On 24 February 1916 he was gazetted temporary captain, RAMC, and on demobilization entered into partnership at Croydon with the firm of Dr Duncan. He was soon attached to St Mary's Maternity Hospital, which was subsequently taken over by the public health authority, and he was elected a member of the senior honorary surgical staff of the Croydon General Hospital in 1920, where he served as surgeon and was appointed a member of the board of management. He married: (1) Elsie Pedley in January 1915; she died in April 1931 leaving four children, three girls and a boy; (2) Gladys de Witt Bowles in August 1932. There were no children by the second marriage. He died after a short illness on 2 March 1939 at his home, India House, 139 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, and his funeral service was conducted by the Bishop of Croydon, the Right Reverend W L Anderson. Neve was the best type of general medical practitioner. Shy and retiring, he had a sound knowledge of medicine, and gave of his best by personal attention to every patient both in private and in hospital. Publications: Herpes of the glosso-pharyngeal nerve. *Brit med J* 1919, 2, 630. Paralysis of the facial nerve with herpes zoster. *Ibid* 1922, 2, 643.