 Dr Nevill died at Bishopsgrove, near Dunedin, New Zealand being buried at St Barnabas Church, Warrington.At his death, he was the senior bishop in the Anglican Communion.The Nevill Chapel of St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin is named in his memory; St Paul's has a carving depicting the Lord Bishop holding a model of the Cathedral's proposed design

Nevill married first, at Heavitree, Devon, in 1863, Mary Susannah Cook Penny (a collateral ancestor of the Viscounts Marchwood), who died in 1905.