Augustus Venables-Vernon, 6th Baron Vernon

Augustus Henry Venables-Vernon, 6th Baron Vernon (1 February 1829 – 1 May 1883), was a British landowner and soldier.

Early life Venables-Vernon was born on 1 February 1829 at Rome, Italy where he was also baptized. He was the eldest son of George Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon, MP for Derbyshire (and the first for South Derbyshire), and Isabella Caroline Ellison (1805–1853). From his parents' marriage, his siblings were Hon. Caroline Maria Warren Venables-Vernon (wife of the Rev. Frederick Anson), Hon. Adelaide Louisa Warren Venables-Vernon (wife of Admiral Sir Reginald Macdonald), Hon. William Warren Vernon (who married Agnes Lucy Boileau, daughter of John Boileau, 1st Bt), and Hon. Louisa Warren Venables-Vernon (wife of the Rev. Thomas Parry Garnier). After his mother's death in 1853, his father married his cousin, Frances Maria Emma Boothby (only daughter of the Rev. Brooke Boothby, and Hon. Louisa Henrietta Venables-Vernon, a daughter of the 3rd Baron Vernon), in 1859. After his father's death, his stepmother married the Rev. Charles Martyn Reed, Rector of Hasfield, in 1881.

His father was the only son of George Venables-Vernon, 4th Baron Vernon of Sudbury, Derbyshire, and Frances Maria Warren (only daughter of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren). His mother was the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Cuthbert Ellison of Hebburn Hall.

Hon. Diana Venables-Vernon (1852–1920), who married, as his third wife, Charles Edmund Newton of Mickleover Manor, eldest surviving son and heir of William Leaper Newton, in 1896. who married Frances Margaret Lawrance, a daughter of Francis C. Lawrance of New York City, in 1885. Hon. William Frederick Cuthbert Venables-Vernon (1856–1913), who married Louisa Frost, third daughter of Brig. Gen. Daniel M. Frost of the U.S. Army in 1884. and another by Angiolino Romagnoli, done in 1884 that today is displayed at Sudbury Hall.