or NEVILLE, ALEXANDER, an old English author, was born in Kent in 1544. He is best known by an elegant and spirited metrical version, or rather paraphrase, of Seneca's Oedipus. It was written as early as his sixteenth year; and was printed in 1581 in a collection entitled Seneca's Tenne Tragedies translated into English. Nevyle is also known as the secretary to the famous Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, and as the author of a Latin narrative of Kett's Norfolk insurrection, printed in 1575; and the Cambridge verses on the death of Sir Philip Sidney printed in 1587. His death took place in 1614.