George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon
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Richard Plumer
Thomas Anson
Thomas Rivett
William Fitzherbert
The Lord Vernon | |
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_-_George_Venables-Vernon_(1710–1780),_1st_Baron_Vernon_of_Kinderton_-_653161_-_National_Trust.jpg) Portrait of Venables-Vernon, by John Vanderbank, 1736 | |
| Member of the British Parliament for Lichfield | |
| In office 1731–1747 | |
| Preceded by | Walter Chetwynd Richard Plumer |
| Succeeded by | Richard Leveson-Gower Thomas Anson |
| Member of the British Parliament for Derby | |
| In office 1754–1762 | |
| Preceded by | Viscount Duncannon Thomas Rivett |
| Succeeded by | Lord Frederick Cavendish William Fitzherbert |
| Personal details | |
| Born | George Vernon 9 February 1709 |
| Died | 21 August 1780 (aged 71) |
| Spouses | Hon. Mary Howard
(m. 1733; died 1740)Ann Lee
(m. 1741; died 1742)Martha Harcourt
(m. 1744; died 1780) |
| Children | 9 |
| Parent(s) | Henry Vernon Anne Pigott |
George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon (9 February 1709 – 21 August 1780), was a British politician.[1]
Vernon was born on 9 February 1709. He was the eldest, and only surviving, son of Henry Vernon, of Sudbury, Derbyshire, MP for Staffordshire and Newcastle-under-Lyme, and his wife Anne Pigott, daughter and heiress of Thomas Pigott of Chetwynd by his wife Mary Venables (sister and heiress of Sir Peter Venables of Kinderton, Cheshire).[2]
Career
His father died in 1719, leaving him Sudbury Hall, and in 1728 he assumed, by royal licence, the additional surname of Venables after he had succeeded to the Cheshire estates on the death of his cousin, Anne Venables-Bertie, Countess of Abingdon (wife of Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon), in accordance with the will of his uncle and her father, Sir Peter Venables.[2]
Vernon began in politics as a Tory, but by 1754 was a supporter of Administration. He sat as a Member of Parliament, as an Anti-Walpole Whig, for Lichfield from 1731 to 1747 and for Derby from 1754 to 1762.[2]
In 1762 he was raised to the peerage as Lord Vernon, of Kinderton, in the County of Chester.[3]
He lived at Sudbury Hall, one the country's finest Restoration mansions, which now is a Grade I listed building.[4]
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