George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon

Family and Education b. 9 Feb. 1710, 1st s. of Henry Vernon by his 1st w. m. (1) 22 June 1733, Mary (d. 23 Feb. 1740), da. and coh. of Thomas, 6th Baron Howard of Effingham, 3s. 2da.; (2) 22 Dec. 1741, Anne (d. 22 Sept. 1742), da. of Sir Thomas Lee, 3rd Bt., of Hartwell, Bucks.; (3) 10 Apr. 1744, Martha, da. of Hon. Simon Harcourt, M.P., sis. of Simon, 1st Earl Harcourt, 3s. 4da. suc. to Kinderton under will of his mat. gt.-uncle Peter Venables 1715 and assumed name of Venables before Vernon 1715; fa. 1719, cr. Baron Vernon of Kinderton 12 May 1762.

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Biography Sitting unopposed as a Tory for Lichfield from 1731 to 1747, Vernon consistently voted with the Opposition till 1744, when he went over to the Administration with the Leveson Gowers, voted in favour of sending Hessian troops against the rebels in December 1745,1 and was classed by the Government as a ‘new ally’ in 1746. Reverting to opposition, he fought a bitter, expensive, and unsuccessful contest at Lichfield against the combined Gower and Anson interests at the general election of 1747.2 After the violent Tory demonstration at Lichfield races in September that year, his brother-in-law, Lord Harcourt, wrote to him:

You cannot conceive what a noise the Lichfield hunting meeting makes in town, where people make no ceremony of treating the company as Jacobites. I was under no uneasiness or apprehension of your being there, for I love and honour you too much to think you capable of such an action. Everybody’s eyes were upon you, and his Majesty told me in a little sort of private conference that he was very glad you was not at that, for he must and ought to consider that company as his declared enemies; upon which I assured him that whatever ill-treatment you might have received from your former friends, you were, however, incapable of entertaining a disloyal sentiment, or of doing anything that had the appearance of disrespect towards him; besides which, I told him that in the time of the rebellion you had exerted yourself very much in behalf of his Majesty and his cause.3 Shortly afterwards Thomas Anson reported to Lord Anson on 17 Oct. 1747 that Vernon

has entirely quitted his old connexions, which will appear soon by most plentiful abuse from that quarter. He now seems fixed and easy.4 He died 21 Aug. 1780, said to be worth £4,000 p.a.5

Ref Volumes: 1715-1754 Author: Eveline Cruickshanks Notes 1. Ilchester, Lord Holland, i. 121-2. 2. See LICHFIELD. 3. E.W. Harcourt, Harcourt Pprs. iii. 37. 4. Add. 15955, f. 62. 5. Staffs. Parl. Hist. (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.) ii (2), p. 234.

1st Baron Vernon of Sudbury and Kinderton

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• George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon
• M, #13263, b. 9 February 1709/10, d. 21 August 1780
• Last Edited=30 May 2011
• George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon was born on 9 February 1709/10.2 He was the son of Henry Vernon and Anne Pigot.2 He married, firstly, Hon. Mary Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 7th Baron Howard of Effingham and Mary Wentworth, on 21 June 1733. He married, secondly, Anne Lee, daughter of Sir Thomas Lee, 3rd Bt. and Elizabeth Sandys, on 22 December 1741. He married, thirdly, Martha Harcourt, daughter of Simon Harcourt and Elizabeth Evelyn, on 10 April 1744. He died on 21 August 1780 at age 70.
• George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon gained the title of 1st Baron Vernon. He was baptised with the name of George Vernon. On 1728 his name was legally changed to George Venables-Vernon. He lived at Sudbury, Derbyshire, England.
• Children of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon and Hon. Mary Howard
  • 1.Hon. Mary Vernon+3
  • 2.George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon+ b. 9 May 1735, d. 18 Jun 1813
• Children of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon and Martha Harcourt
  • 1.Elizabeth Vernon d. 25 Jan 1826
  • 2.William Vernon d. Dec 1790
  • 3.Henry Venables-Vernon, 3rd Baron Vernon+ b. 18 Apr 1747, d. 20 Mar 1829
  • 4.Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt+4 b. 10 Oct 1757, d. 5 Feb 1847
• Citations
• 1.[S3409] Caroline Maubois, "re: Penancoet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 2 December 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Penancoet Family."
• 2.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/2, page 260. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 3.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 173.
• 4.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3997. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1327.htm#i13263
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