Vere may refer to:

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Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland (13 February 1645 – 29 December 1693), styled The Honourable Vere Fane from 1644 to 1661 and Sir Vere Fane from 1661 to 1691, was a British peer and Member of Parliament for Peterborough and twice for Kent ...

grandson to

Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565 – 2 May 1635) (also ''Horatio Vere'' or ''Horatio de Vere'') was an English military leader during the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War, a brother of Francis Vere. He was sent to the Pa ...

Vere Fane, 5th Earl of Westmorland Vere Fane, 5th Earl of Westmorland (25 May 1678 – 19 May 1698), styled The Honourable Vere Fane between 1678 and 1691 and Lord le Despenser between 1691 and 1693, was a British peer and member of the House of Lords. He was the second son (but ...

Vere Fane, 14th Earl of Westmorland Lieutenant-Commander Vere Anthony Francis Fane, 14th Earl of Westmorland (25 March 1893 – 12 May 1948), styled Lord Burghersh until 1922, was a British peer. Styled Lord Burghersh from birth, he was the eldest son of Anthony Fane, 13th Earl of ...

Vere Monckton-Arundell, Viscountess Galway Vere Monckton-Arundell, Viscountess Galway (née Gosling; 1859 - 3 January 1921) was a British poet, writer, philanthropist, and woman of letters. In 1910, she co-founded an auxiliary hospital at her home, Serlby Hall, with her husband. She was i ...

* Vere Fane (MP) Tory MP for Petersfield and Lyme Regis *

Vere Fane Benett-Stanford Vere Fane Benett-Stanford (1840–1894) was an English politician. Early life Vere Fane Benett-Stanford was born Vere Fane in 1840. His father was Reverend Arthur Fane of the Fane family and his mother, Anna Maria Benett, the daughter of John ...

Conservative MP Shaftesbury * Sir Vere Bonamy Fane General in the British Indian Army buried at

Fulbeck Fulbeck is a small village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population (including Byards Leap) taken at the 2011 census was 513. The village is on the A607, north from Grantham and north-west from ...

William Vere Reeve King-Fane Colonel William Vere Reeve King-Fane (born Fane; 29 October 1868 – 5 November 1943) was an English local politician, magistrate and landowner, who served as vice-chairman of Kesteven County Council and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire. Family ...

(1868–1943) OBE was a member of the Fane family, an English landowner, soldier and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire buried at Fulbeck * Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury (1906-1994), British Conservative politician *

Henry Vere Huntley Sir Henry Vere Huntley (1795 – 7 May 1864) was an English naval officer and colonial administrator. He was the eleventh Governor of Prince Edward Island. From 1840 to 1841, he was the Lieutenant Governor of The Gambia. From 1841 to 1847 ...

(1795-1864), English naval officer and colonial administrator *

Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere Admiral Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere (14 July 1699 – 21 October 1781), known as Lord Vere Beauclerk until 1750, was a Royal Navy officer, British peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 24 years from 1726 to 1750. After s ...

(1699-1781), British peer and politician *

Vere Bird Sir Vere Cornwall Bird, KNH (9 December 1910 – 28 June 1999) was the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. His son, Lester Bryant Bird, succeeded him as Prime Minister. In 1994 he was declared a national hero. He was an officer in ...

(1910-1999), first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda *

Vere Gordon Childe Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 189219 October 1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and th ...

(1892-1957), Australian archaeologist and philologist *

Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere Vere Harold Esmond Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere (27 April 1925 – 1 September 1998), known as Vere Harmsworth until 1978, was a British newspaper magnate. He controlled large media interests in the United Kingdom and United States. Busi ...

(1925-1998), founder of the ''Mail on Sunday'' *

Vere Johns Joseph Vere Everette Johns (28 November 1893–10 September 1966

(20th century), impresario and radio personality *

Vere Lorrimer Vere Lorrimer (8 June 1920 – 1 October 1998) was a British television producer and director. His work as director included many BBC dramas including ''Compact'', '' Dixon of Dock Green'', '' Doomwatch'' and ''Blake's 7''. He later moved on t ...

(died 1998), British television producer and director *

Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, (27 October 1880 – 10 March 1956), was an Anglo-Irish businessman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the fourteenth since Canadian Confederation. Born and educated in En ...

(1880-1956), British Conservative Party politician *

Vere St. Leger Goold Vere Thomas "St. Leger" Goold (2 October 1853 – 8 September 1909) was an Irish tennis player who competed for the 1879 Wimbledon All Comers' final. That year he became the first singles champion of the Irish Championships. He quickly faded fro ...

(1853-1909), Irish tennis champion *

William Vere Cruess William Vere Cruess (August 9, 1886 – March 13, 1968) was an American food science, food scientist who pioneered the use of fruits to produce fruit-juice beverages, fruit-based concentrates and syrups. He was one of the first investigators in th ...

(1886-1968), American food scientist *

Wilbert Vere Awdry Wilbert Vere Awdry (15 June 1911 – 21 March 1997) was an English Anglican minister, railway enthusiast, and children's author. He was best known for creating Thomas the Tank Engine. Thomas and several other characters he created appeared ...

(1911-1997), creator of

Thomas the Tank Engine Thomas the Tank Engine is an anthropomorphised fictional tank locomotive in the British ''Railway Series'' books by Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher, published from 1945. He became the most popular and famous character in the series, ...

Surname

Charles Broke Vere Major-General Sir Charles Broke Vere (21 February 1779 – 1 April 1843), ''né'' Broke, was a British soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament. Life He was the son of Philip Bowes Broke and the younger brother of Rear-Admiral Sir Phili ...

(1779-1843), British soldier and Member of Parliament *

Charlotte Vere, Baroness Vere of Norbiton Charlotte Sarah Emily Vere, Baroness Vere of Norbiton (born 9 March 1969) is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords. She serves also as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport and was e ...

(born 1969), British politician *

Francis Vere Sir Francis Vere (1560/6128 August 1609) was a prominent English soldier serving under Queen Elizabeth I fighting mainly in the Low Countries during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War. He was a sergeant major-genera ...

(1560-1609), English soldier *

(1565-1635), English military leader and grandfather to

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Alejandro Asensio Crespillo Alejandro Asensio Crespillo (born 14 September 2000), commonly known as Vere, is a Spanish footballer who plays as a left winger for Rayo Vallecano B. Club career An AD Torrejón CF youth graduate, Vere made his senior debut with the reserve ...

(born 2000), commonly known as ''Vere'', Spanish footballer *

Egwene al'Vere This article serves as an index of major characters in the fictional setting of Robert Jordan's ''The Wheel of Time'' series, with a description of their main roles or feats in the series. ''The Wheel of Time'' has 2787 distinct named characters ...

, one of the main characters of the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan * , any one of several vessels named ''Vere'' *

Vere Island Fair Island, also called Vere Island, is a former community on the northeast coast of the island of Newfoundland. Together with other nearby communities it comprises an area called Bonavista North. These communities have a shared history in that ...

Vere (river) The Vere ( ka, ვერე) is a river in eastern Georgia, originating in the eastern slopes of the Trialeti Range, near Mount Didgori, and flowing into the Mtkvari (Kura) as its right tributary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. The Vere rive ...

, in Georgia *

Vere Street (disambiguation) Vere Street may refer to: * Vere Street, Westminster, a street off Oxford Street, London * Vere Street Coterie, a group of men convicted of sodomy offenses in the 19th century {{disambiguation, road ...

Vere Sandal Company Vere may refer to: Given name * Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland grandson to Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury * Vere Fane, 5th Earl of Westmorland * Vere Fane, 14th Earl of Westmorland * Vere Monckton-Arundell, Viscountess Galway * Vere F ...

* Vere language * ''Schwaaz Vere'', German brigand

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