Roland Venables Vernon, CB, (1877-1942) was a civil servant with the Colonial Office.
He attended Balliol College, Oxford, 1895-99. [1]
In 1924 he was Assistant Secretary, Middle East Department of the Colonial office, and in the New Years Honours List he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
He was a member of the Palestinian Currency Board in which capacity he signed the bank notes issued by this body. [2]
In 1929 he was appointed by the Colonial Office to the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux with responsibility for the colonies, protectorates and mandated territories. [3]