Thomas Vernon (lawyer)
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Thomas Vernon was an English chancery lawyer, and Whig MP for Worcester. He was probably born at Hanbury Hall.
Hanbury Hall
John Vanderbank Thomas Vernon, KC, MP 414225 National Trust
Vernon family
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The Vernon family was a wealthy, prolific and widespread English family with 11th-century origins in Vernon, Normandy, France. Their extant titles include Baron Vernon and Vernon baronets of Shotwick
Thomas Vernon (lawyer)
…Hall. Thomas Vernon was the great-grandson of Rev Richard Vernon, and was descended from the Vernons of Whatcroft, who were related to the medieval Barons Vernon of Shipbrook, Cheshire. Rev Richard Vernon was born in Audley, Staffordshire, and was presented to the living of Hanbury, Worcestershire, in 1580. It was a rich living, and…
Haddon Hall, Derbyshire: photograph by Eirian Evans
St Bartholomew's church, Tong, shrine church of the Vernon family.
Isabel de Lingen (died 1446) and her first husband, Sir Fulke de Pembrugge (died 1409). Isabel founded the chantry and college at Tong for her own and her husbands' souls. It became the shrine church of the Vernon family of Haddon Hall. Her daughter by her second husband Sir John de Ludlow was Benedicta de Ludlow and is buried in the church
Richard Vernon (died 1451, foreground) and Benedicta de Ludlow. Through their marriage the Vernons of Haddon Hall obtained Tong. Tomb in St Bartholomew's Church, Tong, Shropshire. Richard was Speaker of the House of Commons in 1426.