Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet PC, DL, JP was an English soldier and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1832 and 1885.
Verney as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, July 1882
Sir Harry Verney tablet in All Saints Church, Middle Claydon
Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean
Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet
…sons and three daughters. After her death in 1857, Verney married Frances Parthenope Nightingale, daughter of William Edward Nightingale and sister of Florence Nightingale, on 24 June 1858. He died, aged 92 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Edmund. His youngest son Frederick was a diplomat and politician…
Nightingale, c. 1860
Embley Park in Hampshire, now a school, one of the family homes of William Nightingale, seen in 2007
Young Florence Nightingale
Painting of Nightingale by Augustus Egg, c. 1840s