Sir Edmund Verney, 3rd Baronet

Sir Edmund Hope Verney, 3rd Baronet FRGS, DL, JP (6 April 1838 – 8 May 1910) was a British naval officer, author and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1891.

Background and education Verney was the eldest son of Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet, and his first wife Eliza Hope, daughter of Admiral Sir George Johnstone Hope. Verney was educated at Windlesham House School and Harrow School and entered the Royal Navy in 1851. He succeeded his father as baronet in 1894.

Career Verney served in the Crimean War between 1854 and 1855 being afterwards honoured with the Crimea Medal and its Sebastopol clasp and the Turkish Crimean War medal. He entered the House of Commons in 1885, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham until the following year. He represented the constituency again from 1889 until 1891,

Verney was a member of the Isle of Anglesey County Council as well as the London County Council and in 1887 was appointed chairman of the Quarter Sessions, Anglesey, a post he held for the next three years. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for Anglesey and Buckinghamshire.

Verney was a supporter of the Irish Home Rule movement and subscribed to the idea of a Celtic identity, referring to the Irish as the "Celtic brethren" of the Welsh.

Family On 14 January 1868, he married Margaret Maria Williams, daughter of Sir John Hay Williams, 2nd Baronet and had by her three daughters and a son. In June 1858, Verney's father married Frances Parthenope Nightingale after the death of his first wife. She was the sister of Florence Nightingale, who became Aunt Florence to Verney's children.

Works The Shannon's Brigade in India; (1862) The Last Four Days of the Eurydice; (1878) Village Sketches; (1879) Four Years of Protest in the Transvaal; (1881) The Parish Charities of North Buckinghamshire; (1887 and 1905) War With Crime; (1889)