Airey Neave
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Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, DSO, OBE, MC, TD （/ˈɛəri ˈniːv/; 23 January 1916 – 30 March 1979） was a British soldier, lawyer and Member of Parliament （MP） from 1953 until his assassination in 1979.
During World War II he was the first British prisoner-of-war to succeed in escaping from Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, and later worked for MI9.
After the war he served with the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg trials.
He later became Conservative MP for Abingdon.
Neave was assassinated in a car bomb attack at the House of Commons.
The Irish National Liberation Army claimed responsibility.
Neave was the son of Sheffield Airey Neave CMG, OBE （1879–1961）, an entomologist, who lived at Ingatestone, Essex, and his wife Dorothy （d. 1943）, the daughter of Arthur Thomson Middleton.
His father was the grandson of Sheffield Neave, the third son of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet （see Neave baronets）.
The family came to prominence as merchants in the West Indies during the 18th century and were raised to the baronetage during the life of Richard Neave, Governor of the Bank of England.
Neave spent his early years in Knightsbridge in London, before he moved to Beaconsfield.
Neave was sent to St.
Ronan's School, Worthing, and from there, in 1929, he went to Eton College.
He went on to read Jurisprudence at Merton College, Oxford.
While at Eton, Neave composed a prize-winning essay in 1933 that examined the likely consequences of Adolf Hitler's rise to supreme power in Germany, and Neave predicted then that another widespread war would break out in Europe in the near future.
Neave had earlier been on a visit to ...
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