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Vernon of Haddon arms Haddon Hall, Derbyshire: photograph by Eirian Evans St Bartholomew's church, Tong, shrine church of the Vernon family.. Sir Richard de Vernon (d. c. 1215) acquired the manor by his late 12th century marriage to the heiress of Nether Haddon and Haddon Hall, Alice Avenell, daughter of William Avenell. [3]
The church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican parish church in the village of Hanbury, Worcestershire. Its earliest parts date from about 1210 [ 1 ] and it is a Grade I listed building . [ 2 ] The church was the family church for the Vernon family of nearby Hanbury Hall .
The Vernon family acquired the Manor of Haddon by a 12th-century marriage between Sir Richard de Vernon and Alice Avenell, daughter of William Avenell II. Four centuries later, in 1563, Dorothy Vernon, the daughter and heiress of Sir George Vernon, married John Manners, the second son of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. A legend grew up in ...
Baron Vernon coat of arms. Lord Vernon was born on 6 November 1889 into the prominent Vernon family. [1] He was the son of George Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon, and Frances Margaret Lawrance (a daughter of Francis C. Lawrance, of New York City).
Tong church was to become a shrine for the Vernon family, accommodating generations of elaborate tombs. Vernon also tried to acquire the substantial estates of Sir Fulke's first wife, Margaret Trussell, which had been settled on Isabel for life. The legal wrangles with the Trussell family dragged on inconclusively for more than 20 years.
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Death duties continued to burden the Vernon family, and in 1967, Sudbury Hall and its principal contents along with part of the gardens and parkland, was transferred by John Venables-Vernon, 10th Baron Vernon via the National Land Fund to the National Trust, in part payment of death duties. The remainder of the Sudbury Estate is still held by ...
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