 After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Nevill returned home to take up an entirely new career and become a clergyman.He was admitted fellow-commoner to Christ's College, Cambridge on 11 November 1816 and received his MA in 1818.He was ordained deacon on 3 March 1817 and priest on 5 April 1817, and was then appointed vicar of Frant, Sussex on 13 April 1817.