In an email of May 2002, Veronica Neve-James writes: "Only today I was telling one of the people I work with about my Great Aunt Edith Neve who was a missionary and a nurse in Kerala state in India (sister to my grandfather Clement ) and how she went out to India at age 22 or so and stayed her whole life devoting herself to others. Her sister Margaret Neve also a spinster was one of the first women to obtain a MA from Oxford University, and was the principle at Queen Mary's College, Lahore for a short time before returning to England to become Headmistress at a girls school (Heron's Gill, I believe) in Horsham. The third sister, Grace Neve, was a pharmacist at Croyden General Hospital. They all lived to
be 90, the reason being, we say, is they never married and didn't have all the stress of husband and children."