Henry Vernon

Henry Vernon (April 1686 – 25 February 1719), of Sudbury, Derbyshire, was an English landowner and politician.

Early life

Vernon was born in April 1686 as the only surviving son of George Vernon (1635–1702), MP for Derby, and his third wife, Catherine Vernon. His father had previously been married to Margaret Oneley (daughter and heiress of Edward Oneley) and Dorothy Shirley (daughter of Sir Robert Shirley, 4th Baronet, of Staunton Harold Hall). His paternal uncle, Henry Vernon, was MP for Stafford from 1711 to 1715 and his son, Vernon's first cousin, Henry Vernon, was MP for Lichfield and Newcastle-Under-Lyme from 1761 to 1762 who was the father of Henrietta Grosvenor. His maternal grandparents were Ann Weston (daughter of Henry Weston of Ockham, Surrey) and Sir Thomas Vernon, London merchant and MP for City of London, Among his maternal uncles were Thomas Vernon, MP for Whitchurch, and Sir Charles Vernon, MP for Chipping Wycombe and Ripon.

Career Vernon succeeded to his father's estates in 1702. The Vernons of Sudbury acquired Swynnerton and Hilton in Staffordshire, by marriage, in 1557. Vernon's grandfather left Sudbury to his eldest son, George, Vernon's father, and Hilton to his second son, the grandfather of Henry Vernon of Hilton. Anna Catherine Vernon (1710–1757), who married her cousin, Richard Lockwood, son of Richard Lockwood and Matilda ( Vernon) Lockwood.

After Anne's death in 1714, Vernon married Matilda Wright, a daughter of Thomas Wright of Longstone, Derbyshire.

Vernon died on 25 February 1719 and was succeeded in his estates by his only son, George.

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