On Lord Braybrooke and Howard de Walden's death in 1797, the barony of Howard de Walden again fell into
abeyance (it was called out of abeyance in 1799; see the
Baron Howard de Walden). He was succeeded in the barony of Braybrooke according to the special remainder by his kinsman Richard Neville-Aldworth, the second Baron. He also inherited the family seat of
Audley End in
Essex, to add to his own at
Billingbear Park in
Berkshire. The same year he succeeded in the barony, Neville-Aldworth assumed by act of Parliament, ''''
(38 Geo. 3. c. 8'' ), the surname of Griffin for himself, his eldest son and one of his daughters (one of his younger sons was
George Neville-Grenville,
Dean of Windsor). He had previously represented
Grampound,
Buckingham and
Reading in
Parliament and later served as
Lord Lieutenant of Essex. Lord Braybrooke was the husband of Catherine Grenville, daughter of the former
Prime Minister George Grenville. Their eldest son, the third Baron, sat in the
House of Commons as a representative for
Thirsk,
Saltash,
Buckingham and
Berkshire.
Latimer Neville, 6th Baron Braybrooke was
Master of
Magdalene College, Cambridge for over 50 years from 1853–1904 but was described as "a good but dull man lacking intellectual powers." Lieutenant Richard, 8th Baron Braybroke, Grenadier Guards, was killed on active service in Tunisia on 23 January 1943, and is buried in the Medjez el Bab Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery. The
tenth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1990, served as
Lord Lieutenant of Essex from 1992 to 2000. Lord Braybrooke was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the
University of Essex in July 2000. Lord Braybrooke had eight daughters but no sons. In 2017, the title was inherited by the tenth Baron's fourth cousin once removed, Richard Neville, born in 1977. The eleventh Baron is a great-great-great-grandson of
George Neville-Grenville,
Dean of Windsor, third son of the second Baron. The family seat of Billingbear House burnt down in 1924. In 1948,
Audley End house (but not the estate and contents) was sold, while creating the incorporeal hereditament right to repurchase, to the
Ministry of Works and later came into the care of
English Heritage. The Barons Braybrooke remain the
hereditary visitors of
Magdalene College, Cambridge but no longer have the power to appoint the master. Following an amendment to the college statutes, approved in 2012, the master is now appointed by the governing body of the college. ==Barons Braybrooke (1788–)==