VERNEY, Sir Edmund (1590-1642), of Middle Claydon, Bucks.

Family and Education

b. 1 Jan. 1590, 2nd s. of Sir Edmund Verney (d. 1600) of Pendley in Tring, Herts. and his 3rd w. Mary, da. of John Blackneys of Sparrowham, Norf. and wid. of Geoffrey Turville.Vis. Bucks. 1634 (Harl. Soc. lviii), 123. educ. St Alban Hall, Oxf. 9 Mar. 1604;Al. Ox. travelled abroad (Low Countries, France, Italy).D. Lloyd, Memoires of the Lives … of those Noble, Reverend, and Excellent Personages (1668), 351; Mems. of the Verney Fam. i. 70. m. (with £2,300) 14 Dec. 1612, Margaret (d. 5 Apr. 1641), da. of Sir Thomas Denton† of Hillesden, Bucks. 4s. 6da.Vis. Bucks. 1634, 38, 123; Lttrs. and Pprs. of the Verney Family ed. J. Bruce (Cam. Soc. lvi), 104-5; L. Stone, ‘The Verney tomb at Middle Claydon’, Recs. of Bucks. xvi. 81. Kntd. 7 Jan. 1611.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 150. suc. half-bro. Sir Francis Verney 1615. d. 23 Oct. 1642.Verney MSS, Sir E. Sidenham to Sir R. Verney, 27 Oct. 1642 (M636/4).

Offices Held

sewer to Prince Henry, 1610–12.Mems. of the Verney Fam. i. 70. Gent. of privy chamber to prince of Wales, 1613–25; to Charles I 1633–d.Autobiography and corresp. of Sir Simonds D’Ewes ed. J.O. Halliwell (1845), ii. 415; LC2/6, f. 69v; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 159; N. Carlisle, An Inquiry into…Gent. of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Chamber (1829), 135. Knt. marshal of the household, 1626–d.CSP Dom. 1625–6, pp. 281, 561; Lttrs. and Pprs. of the Verney Family, 122–3. Judge, palace ct. 1630–d.PALA9/6/1.

attendant, Lord Digby’s embassy to Spain, 1617–18.Lloyd, Memoires, 351.

lt. Whaddon Chase, Bucks. 1622.Lttrs. and Pprs. of the Verney Family, 105. Dep. lt. Bucks. by 1626-at least 1640.SP16/24/25; CSP Dom. 1640, p. 537; Lttrs. and Pprs. of the Verney Family, 128. Commr. Forced Loan, Bucks., Buckingham 1627;Rymer, Feodera, viii. pt. 2, p. 144; C193/12/2, ff. 3v, 82v. oyer and terminer, the Verge 1626-aft. Nov. 1639;C181/3, ff. 198v, 219v; C181/4, ff. 5v, 175v; C181/5, ff. 89v, 154v. Mdx. 1627;C181/3, f. 219. Norf. circ. 1635-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/4, f. 196v; C181/5, ff. 3v, 218. Bucks. 23 June 1640.C181/5, f. 176v. J.p. Bucks., Mdx., Westminster 1627-at least 1641.C231/4, ff. 197v. 200; C66/2859; CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 134. Commr. martial law, Mdx. and Westm. 1627;Coventry Docquets, 30. swans, midland cos. and Welsh borders 1627;C181/3, f. 227. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 1634;C181/4, f. 191. subsidy, Bucks., Westminster 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), Bucks. 1642.Northants. RO, FH133, unfol.

freeman, New Romney, Kent 1625.E. Kent Archives, NR/AC/2, p. 41.

vestryman, St Paul’s Covent Garden 1638–?d.CSP Dom. 1638–9, p. 134.

commr. to investigate exch. fines, 1640.CSP Dom. 1640, p. 135.

standard bearer, royal army, Aug. 1642–d.Clarendon, Hist. ii. 290.

Parlimentarian

VERNEY, Sir Edmund (1590-1642), of Drury Lane, Westminster and Hillesden, Bucks.; later of Middle Claydon, Bucks. and the Piazza, Covent Garden, Westminster.

Bucks.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, A. Van Dyck, c.1640;NPG. oil on canvas, studio of A. Van Dyck, c.1640;Claydon Hall Trust. oil on canvas, aft. A. Van Dyck;Chequers Court, Bucks. miniature, aft. A. Van Dyck, c.1640;NT, Anglesey Abbey. watercolour, J. Bulfinch;NPG. fun. monument, E. Marshall, Middle Claydon church, Bucks.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

VERNEY, Sir Edmund (1590-1642), of Middle Claydon, Bucks.

Will

26 Mar. 1639, pr. 23 Dec. 1642.PROB11/190/481.

Estates

alienated manor of Middle Claydon, Bucks. 1635.Coventry Docquets, 679.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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