Harry Vernon | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for East Worcestershire |
Term Start: | 20 December 1861 |
Term End: | 25 November 1868 |
Alongside: | Charles Lytellton (June 1868–November 1868) Frederick Gough-Calthorpe (1861–1868) |
Predecessor: | John Hodgetts-Foley Frederick Gough-Calthorpe |
Successor: | Charles Lyttelton Richard Amphlett |
Birth Date: | 11 April 1834 |
Residence: | Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Liberal |
Parents: | Thomas Taylor Vernon Jessie Anna Letitia Foley |
Children: | Three, including Bowater George Hamilton Vernon |
Sir Harry Foley Vernon, 1st Baronet (11 April 1834 – 1 February 1920) was a British Liberal Party politician.
Born in 1834, Vernon was the son of Thomas Taylor and Jessie Anna Letitia (née Foley) Vernon.
Vernon was elected Liberal MP for East Worcestershire at a by-election in 1861—caused by the death of John Hodgetts-Foley—and held the seat until 1868 when he did not seek re-election.[1]
Vernon was created a Baronet of Hanbury Hall in 1885, in recognition of the way he managed his estate during the Great Depression of British Agriculture.[2]
In 1861, he married Lady Georgina Sophia Baillie-Hamilton, daughter of George and Georgina (née Markham) Baillie-Hamilton and they had at least three children: Auda Letitia (1862–1957); Bowater George Hamilton (1865–1940); and Herbert Edward (1867–1902).[3]
Upon his death in 1920, his son, Bowater George Hamilton Vernon, succeeded to the title, after which it became extinct.