Richard Verney, 11th Baron Willoughby de Broke and ''de jure'' 19th Baron Latimer (28 January 1622 – 18 July 1711) was a peer in the

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, High Sheriff and

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. He was born in 1622, the second son of Sir

Greville Verney, 7th Baron Willoughby de Broke Greville Verney, 7th Baron Willoughby de Broke and de jure 15th Baron Latimer (1586 – 12 May 1642) of Compton Verney in Warwickshire, England, served twice as a Member of Parliament for Warwick, in 1614 and 1621. Origins He was the son and hei ...

(1586–1642) and Catherine Southwell of

Compton Verney Compton Verney is a parish and historic manor in the county of Warwickshire, England. The population taken at the 2011 census was 119. The surviving manor house is the Georgian mansion Compton Verney House. Descent of the manor The first r ...

, Warwickshire. He became head of the Verney family in August 1683 following the early death of his fifteen-year-old great-nephew

William Verney, 10th Baron Willoughby de Broke William Verney, 10th Baron Willoughby de Broke and de jure 18th Baron Latimer (12 June 1668 – 23 August 1683), was a peer in the peerage of England. William Verney was the only son of Sir Greville Verney, 9th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1649� ...

, only male descendant of his elder brother Greville, and moved from his Rutland estate to live at Compton Verney. Richard Verney was

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in 1682 and

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in 1683. He was elected to

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in 1685 as

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for

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and knighted on 1 April 1685, when he presented an address of congratulation from his constituents to King James II on his accession to the throne. He was reelected in 1689. In 1694 he formally laid claim to the dormant barony and, following a favourable ruling in the House of Lords, he assumed the title of 11th

Baron Willoughby de Broke Baron Willoughby de Broke is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ in 1491 for Sir Robert Willoughby, of the manor of Broke, part of Westbury, Wiltshire, who according to modern doctrine was ''de jure'' 9th Baron Latime ...

and 19th

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in 1695. He married twice, firstly to Mary Pretyman, daughter of Sir

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of Leicestershire, and secondly to Frances Dove, daughter of Thomas Dove of Upton, Northamptonshire. By his first wife he had four children (Mary, John, George and Thomas), and by his second wife a daughter (Diana). On his death on 18 July 1711 he was buried in the chapel at

and the title passed to his second son

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(his eldest son John, MP for Leicestershire, having died childless in 1707).

References

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History of Parliament VERNEY, Richard (1622-1711) of Allexton, Leics, Belton, Rutland and Compton Verney, Warks
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ThePeerage

Willoughby de Broke Peerage Case, Collins' Peerage, P321

External links

Compton Verney House website
1622 births 1711 deaths High Sheriffs of Rutland High Sheriffs of Warwickshire English MPs 1685–1687

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