Edmund Verney (Buckinghamshire MP)
Edmund Verney may refer to: *Sir Edmund Verney (Cavalier) (1590 or 1596–1642), English royalist, MP for Buckingham 1624, New Romney, Aylesbury and Wycombe *Sir Edmund Verney (soldier) (1616–1649), English soldier, son of the above *Sir Edmund Verney, 3rd Baronet (1838–1910), Royal Navy captain and British MP for Buckingham 1885–1886 and 1889–1891 *Sir Edmund Verney, 6th Baronet Sir Edmund Ralph Verney, 6th Baronet (born 28 June 1950) succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Calvert, of Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, on 17 August 2001. Personal life Verney is the son of Sir Ralph Verney, 5th Baronet, and Mary Vestey. He ma ...

Edmund Verney (Cavalier)
Sir Edmund Verney (1 January 1590 or 7 April 1596 – 23 October 1642) was an English politician, soldier and favourite of King Charles I. At the outbreak of the English Civil War he supported the Royalist cause and was killed at the Battle of Edgehill. Life Edmund Verney was the son of Sir Edmund Verney of Pendley Manor near Tring, Buckinghamshire and his third wife Mary Blakeney. He was the grandson of Hon. Elizabeth Verney, second daughter of the first Baron Braye. He had two elder half-brothers Sir Francis Verney who died in 1615, and Ambrose Turvile who died in 1628, and two elder half-sisters on his mother's side, Ann Turvill (who married Sir John Leeke of Edmonton), and Ursula St. Barbe, who married her stepbrother Sir Francis Verney. Knighted by King James I in 1611, Edmund was sent to Madrid, and returned to join the household of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, to which his uncle Francis Verney was one of the falconers. Upon Henry's death in 1612, Edmund became a ...
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Edmund Verney (soldier)
Sir Edmund Verney (1616 – 11 September 1649) was an English soldier who fought on the Royalist side during the English Civil War. Education Verney was born in 1616, was third son of Sir Edmund Verney and his wife, Margaret (died 1641), daughter of Sir Thomas Denton of Hillesden. Edmund was educated at a private school at Gloucester, at Winchester College (1634), and then at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he matriculated on 22 January 1636, learnt little and got into debt and into disgrace with his tutor, Henry Wilkinson. Thence he was removed to the care of Mr. Crowther, rector of Newton Blossomville, formerly his elder brother Ralph's Oxford tutor, who found him "devoid of the first grounds of logicke or other University learning", but "willing and capable". Military service Verney entered the army as a volunteer in 1639, joined his father in the army of King Charles I on the Scottish border, and from that time proved himself a first-rate soldier, enduring hardships ...
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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. Following his service during the Indian Mutiny between 1857 and 1858, where he was mentioned in despatches and received the Indian Mutiny Medal with the Lucknow clasp, he was promoted to lieutenant. From 1862, he commanded HMS ''Grappler'' and in 1866 he was transferred as a commander to HMS ''Oberon''. ...
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