Airey Neave

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Lieutenant Colonel Airey Neave DSO OBE MC TD
Neave between May 1940 and May 1941
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office 4 March 1974 – 30 March 1979
Leader	Edward Heath Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Francis Pym
Succeeded by	Alec Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air
In office 16 January 1959 – 16 October 1959
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Ian Orr-Ewing
Succeeded by	William Taylor
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
In office 18 January 1957 – 16 January 1959
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Hugh Molson
Succeeded by	John Hay
Member of Parliament for Abingdon
In office 30 June 1953 – 30 March 1979
Preceded by	Sir Ralph Glyn
Succeeded by	Thomas Benyon
Personal details
Born	Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave (1916-01-23)23 January 1916 Knightsbridge, London, England
Died	30 March 1979(1979-03-30) (aged 63) Westminster, London, England
Manner of death	Assassination (car bomb attack)
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Diana Giffard ​ (m. 1942)​
Children	3
Parent(s)	Sheffield Airey Neave (father)
Alma mater	Merton College, Oxford
Occupation	Politician Soldier
Profession	Barrister
Military service
Allegiance	British Empire
Branch/service	British Army
Years of service	1935–1951
Rank	Lieutenant colonel
Unit	Royal Artillery
Battles/wars	Second World War Battle of France Siege of Calais  (POW)

Lieutenant Colonel 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 the Second World War 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.