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The Vernon family was a wealthy, prolific and widespread English family with 11th-century origins in Vernon, Normandy, France. Their extant titles include Baron Vernon and Vernon baronets of Shotwick Park .
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life is an 1883 novel written by Margaret Oliphant. [1] It examines the cycle of history through the lives of the Vernon family. The book was published in three separate volumes corresponding to three parts of the story.
Vernon is a surname, from a masculine name that is derived from the Gallic word vern for Alder tree (also springlike, flourishing, or full of life) and a Gaulish-Latin suffix indicating a location. Thus Vernon is a "place of alders".
The ancestral family seat of the Barons Vernon is Sudbury Hall, near Uttoxeter, Derbyshire, which was given to the National Trust in 1967 in lieu of death duties after the death of the 9th Baron Vernon. [4] The family of the late 10th Baron still keeps a residence in the grounds of the Sudbury Hall estate. None of the Lords Vernon are among the ...
The Vernon baronetcy, of Shotwick Park in Cheshire was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom for William Vernon on 24 January 1914. It is extant. Sir James Vernon, 5th Baronet, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Standing Council of the Baronetage. [5] Members of other branches of the Vernon family have been created Baron ...
Haddon Hall, seat of the Vernon family. Vernon was born into the prominent Vernon family of Cheshire and Derbyshire.His father, William Vernon, was Knight-Constable of England, Treasurer of Calais, and a Member of Parliament, while his grandfather Richard Vernon had been the Speaker of the House of Commons. [1]
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Pages in category "Vernon family" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Sir Henry Vernon, 1st Baronet; R. Richard Vernon (speaker)