Peter Baird Neville
OBITUARY
With deep sorrow the Neville family announces the death of Peter Baird Neville, who on June 13th, 2025 passed peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family and in the care of hospice.
Peter was born in North Conway, New Hampshire to Edwin Lowe and Joan Mitchell Neville. He spent many wonderful summers in nearby South Conway, hiking the White Mountains, playing tennis, and swimming in Conway Lake with family and friends. The rest of the year was spent in New Canaan, Connecticut where he attended New Canaan Country School and learned to play ice hockey at the New Canaan Winter Club. Peter was also an accomplished equestrian. As a young boy he rode under the tutelage of his uncle, George H. Morris, at the Ox Ridge Hunt Club and competed in many horse shows and won many equestrian events, including shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Peter demonstrated a natural ability to play many sports, but his strength and quickness at hockey and lacrosse were most evident at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where he played three years on the varsity team in each sport. He was also co-captain of the hockey team with his dear friend, James H. Lindsay. Peter continued the many friendships he made at Deerfield until the end of his life. Peter’s deep connection to athletics, his friends, and the outdoors led him to also take up sailing, wing shooting, long distance bicycling, squash, yoga, and many other pursuits over the course of his bountiful and multifaceted life.
Peter received a scholarship to play hockey at the University of Denver, attended the Whittemore School of Business at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, and continued many aspects of further business education throughout his life. His professional life was marked by entrepreneurship, determination, steadfast dedication to his clients in the private wealth sector, and most of all, modesty. He began his financial services career in 1981 with Merrill Lynch in Hartford, Connecticut and joined Morgan Stanley in 1988. Peter evolved with the industry, focusing on ultra-high net worth clients and the intergenerational needs and stewardship required with the wealth transfer process, and was frequently recognized for his professional accomplishments among his peers. In 2012, 2013, and 2014 he ranked number 8, 29, and 30 respectively, including 6 consecutive times in total within the State of Connecticut as one of Barron’s Top 1,000 advisors. As part of Morgan Stanley’s best-in-class intellectual capital, Peter was a Senior Investment Consultant with the firm’s Consulting Group and a graduate of the distinguished Investment Analyst Program at the Wharton School of Business. He was also part of a select group of sustainable investing advisors, earning the title of Investing With Impact Director. Peter’s commitment to financial stewardship and investment management enabled him to manage clients with family and individual wealth, but also institutional cash resources for corporations, foundations, and endowments. Trust and estate planning strategies, pre and post liquidity planning, cash and lending services, and strategic asset management are also services that Peter dutifully provided to his clients.
Profoundly important to Peter were his relationships. Family and friends, many of whom he considered to be family, were all foundational to his identity. Peter is survived by his wife of 44 years, Margaret Mary Doe Neville, his daughter Alexandra Whitney Neville Booker (Arthur Breckenridge Booker) of West Hartford, Connecticut, his son Peter Baird Neville Jr., (Amber Ford Neville) of Washington DC, sisters Whitney Neville Harvey (the late Charles Harvey) of Portland, Maine and Cathy Van Aanden Neville of San Diego, California, and brother Matthew Neville (Rosemary Bourget) of South Conway, New Hampshire. Peter was predeceased by both parents and his brother, Edwin L. Neville III (Giovanna Neville) of Tucson, Arizona. Peter is also survived by grandchildren Winston B. Booker, Cecilia W. Booker, Hutchings B. Booker, Emma G. Neville, Ford B. Neville, and many more family members and dear friends.
Visiting hours will be held at Molloy Funeral Home, 906 Farmington Ave. in West Hartford on June 26th, from 4 o’clock until 7 o’clock in the evening. Memorial Service will be held at Saint John’s Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Ave. in West Hartford on June 27th, at 11 o’clock in the morning. Burial will follow immediately at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford. Reception will take place at The Hartford Golf Club in West Hartford at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. Coat and tie. In lieu of flowers please send donations to The American Cancer Society. Directions and online expressions of sympathy may be found at www.molloyfuneralhome.com
