Sir Edward Derrick Wingfield Verner, 6th Baronet (28 May 1907 – 27 March 1975) was an

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soldier, usually known as Derrick Verner. The son of

Sir Edward Wingfield Verner, 5th Baronet Sir Edward Wingfield Verner, 5th Baronet (22 November 1865 – 1 November 1936), was a British soldier. Verner was the son of Sir Edward Wingfield Verner, 4th Baronet, and Selina Florence Nugent. He gained the rank of captain in the service of the ...

, by his marriage to Agnes Dorothy Laming, Verner was educated at

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, in

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, and

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, where he graduated

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in 1928.Sir Edward Derrick Wingfield Verner, 6th Baronet
at thepeerage.com, accessed 3 July 2013 Unfortunately for Verner, the family estates in Ireland had been separated from the title in 1886, when the third baronet left them to an adopted son. However, his father had inherited

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, and the family lived there until 1922, when Verner's father sold up and settled in England.Churchill - Home of the Verners
at craigavonhistoricalsociety.org.uk, accessed 3 July 2013 Verner gained the rank of Lieutenant in the service of the

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. He married Angèle Becco, daughter of Louis Becco, on 7 February 1948. He died in 1975, without issue. Verner's younger brother, John Wingfield Verner, had married Sybil Leigh-Pemberton in 1934, but he also had no children and died in 1943, so with Verner's death, the title became extinct.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Verner, Derrick 1907 births 1975 deaths Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People educated at Gresham's School