Nevill Brinley Richards and Alice Edmunds Richards nee Latham
Nevill Brinley Richards was born on 26 May 1882 in Streatham, London. His middle name was inherited from his grandfather, Henry Brinley Richards, who was a well-known Victorian musician who composed the famous song "God Bless the Prince of Wales". Nevill's parents were Henry Brinley Richards and Martha Louisa nee Nevill (hence the unusual spelling of Nevill's first name.) Nevill was the oldest child of three, and he was baptised on 6 July 1882. His father was a land agent and auctioneer; by 1891 the family had moved to Cranley Gardens in South Kensington, but sadly Henry died in 1896, leaving his widow with three young children. Nevill became a boarder at an army school in Putney but later moved on to work for the LNWR as a draughtsman. Ultimately he became an engineer and married, in the summer of 1910, Alice Edmunds Latham, in Stockport.
Nevill and his young family (three sons were born between 1913 and 1922) moved to Coventry and at first lived in Earlsdon Avenue South. He became a garage proprietor and by the time of the 1939 census he was living at 6, Stoneleigh Road, though unfortunately he is described on the register as incapacitated. One of his sons was assisting in the garage business. Nevill died on 8 March 1944.
Alice Edmunds Latham had been born on 12 November 1884 in Stockport, where she was later to marry Nevill Brinley Richards. Her father Arthur Sidney Latham was a cotton manufacturer and agent; he and his wife Edith Milnes nee Edmunds had two daughters and two sons, of whom Alice was the eldest. She survived her husband by fifteen years, dying on 19 March 1959 at the River Park Nursing Home at Blackdown, Leamington, though her address was 158 Leamington Road Coventry.