Henry Peyto-Verney, 16th Baron Willoughby de Broke and de jure 24th Baron Latimer (5 April 1773 – 16 December 1852) was a peer in the
peerage of England
The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerag ...
.
Henry Peyto-Verney was born on 5 April 1773, the younger son of
John Peyto-Verney (1738–1816),14th Baron Willoughby de Broke and Lady Louisa North, daughter of
Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford
Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford (13 April 1704 – 4 August 1790), of Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, styled as Lord Guilford between 1729 and 1752, was a British Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1727 ...
. He lived a somewhat reclusive life at the Verney family seat at
Compton Verney House
Compton Verney House () is an 18th-century country mansion at Compton Verney near Kineton in Warwickshire, England. It is located on the west side of a lake north of the B4086 road, B4086 about north-west of Banbury. Today, it is the site of th ...
in Warwickshire, inheriting the title 16th Baron Willoughby de Broke and 24th Baron Latimer on the death of his elder brother
John Peyto-Verney (1762–1820).
He married Margaret Williams, daughter of
Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet Williams of Bodelwyddan in
St Asaph Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of Saints Asaph and Cyndeyrn, commonly called St Asaph Cathedral (), is a cathedral in St Asaph, Denbighshire, north Wales. It is the episcopal seat of the Bishop of St Asaph. The cathedral dates back 1,400 years, while t ...
on 10 March 1829. Lady Margaret commissioned the building of the remarkable
Marble Church, Bodelwyddan
St Margaret's Church, Bodelwyddan, nicknamed the Marble Church, is a Decorated Gothic Style parish church in the lower Vale of Clwyd in Denbighshire, Wales and is visible for many miles because its spire rises to 202 feet. It lies just off the A ...
in North Wales to his memory soon after his death at Compton Verney on 16 December 1852. Margaret herself died in 1880. He was succeeded as 17th Baron by his nephew
Robert John Barnard (1809–1862) who changed his name to Verney.
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External links
Marble Church,Bodelwyddan Website
1773 births
1852 deaths
Henry
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