Ung sent, ung soleil (One faith, one sun) (Verney); Servata fides cineri (Faith kept with my ancestor) (Calvert)
Arms
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, azure on a cross argent fimbriated or, five mullets gules (Verney); 2nd and 3rd, paly of six erminois pean, a bend engrailed counterchanged (Calvert)
Crest
1st, a demi-phoenix in flames proper, charged with five mullets in cross or and looking at rays of the sun (Verney); 2nd, out of a mural coronet, argent two spears erect, therefrom two pennons flowing towards the dexter, one erminois, the other pean (Calvert)
The heir apparent is the present holder's son Andrew Nicholas Verney (born 1983).[5]
Extended family
George Hope Lloyd-Verney (who assumed the additional surname of Lloyd in 1888), third son of the 2nd Baronet, was a colonel in the Army. He wrote the booklet Four-Handed Chess which was published in 1881.[6] His son Sir Harry Lloyd-Verney was Treasurer and Private Secretary to Queen Mary. His son Gerald Lloyd-Verney (1900–1957) was a major-general in the Irish Guards. His son Peter Vivian Verney (b. 1930) is an author.
Claydon House is a country house in the Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England, near the village of Middle Claydon. It was built between 1757 and 1771 and is now owned by the National Trust.
Viscount Hardinge, of Lahore and of Kings Newton in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1846 for the soldier and Tory politician Sir Henry Hardinge. His son, the second Viscount, represented Downpatrick in Parliament. His great-great-grandson, the sixth Viscount, succeeded a distant relative as eighth Baronet, of Belle Isle in the County of Fermanagh, in 1986. This title had been created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 1801 for Richard Hardinge. He was the third son of Nicolas Hardinge, younger brother of Reverend Henry Hardinge and uncle of the latter's third son Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge. The baronetcy was created with special remainder to the heirs male of Richard Hardinge's father.
Sir Edmund Verney was an English politician, soldier and favourite of King Charles I. At the outbreak of the English Civil War he supported the Royalist cause and was killed at the Battle of Edgehill.
The Verney family purchased the manor of Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1460s and still resides there today at the manor house known as Claydon House. This family had been seated previously at Fleetmarston in Buckinghamshire then at Pendley in Hertfordshire. It is not to be confused with the unrelated but also ancient and prominent Verney family of Compton Verney in Warwickshire.
Earl Verney, in the Province of Leinster, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. Sir Ralph Verney sat as a member of parliament for Aylesbury, for Great Bedwyn and for Buckingham. In 1661 he was created a Baronet, of Middle Claydon in the County of Buckingham, in the Baronetage of England. His son Sir John Verney, Bt, was a member of parliament for Buckinghamshire and for Amersham. In 1703, he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Verney of Belturbet, in the County of Cavan, and Viscount Fermanagh. His son, the second Viscount, represented Amersham and Wendover in Parliament. In 1742 he was created Earl Verney, in the Province of Leinster, in the Peerage of Ireland. However, all titles became extinct on the death of his son, the second Earl, in 1791.
The Stronge baronetcy of Tynan was conferred in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 June 1803. The family were northern Irish landowners of Tynan Abbey, County Armagh, also possessing the residence of Lizard Manor, Aghadowey, County Londonderry.
The Antrobus Baronetcy, of Antrobus in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
The Cradock-Hartopp Baronetcy, of Freathby in the County of Leicester and of Four Oaks Hall in the County of Warwick, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 12 May 1796 for Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, Member of Parliament for Leicestershire. Born Edmund Bunney, he was the husband of Anne Hurlock, granddaughter and heiress of Sir John Hartopp, 4th Baronet, of Freathby. On his marriage in 1777 he assumed the surname of Cradock-Hartopp in lieu of his patronymic according to the wills of his uncle Joseph Cradock and his wife's grandfather. His eldest surviving son Edmund, the second Baronet, died childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, William, the third Baronet. The title then descended from father to son until the death of his grandson, Charles, the fifth Baronet, in 1929.
Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet DL, JP was an English baronet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1690.
John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh, known as Sir John Verney, 2nd Baronet, between 1696 and 1703, was an English peer, merchant and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1717.
There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Bell, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2007.
The Payne, later Payne-Gallwey, and from 1967 Frankland-Payne-Gallwey Baronetcy, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 December 1812 for General William Payne, Governor of the Leeward Islands. Payne-Gallwey was the half-brother of Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington, who also served as Governor of the Leeward Islands.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Harry Calvert Williams Verney, 4th Baronet, DSO, was a British Liberal politician.
The Elton Baronetcy, of Bristol, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 31 October 1717 for Abraham Elton, Mayor of and Member of Parliament for Bristol from 1722 to 1727. The second Baronet was also Mayor of Bristol and represented Taunton and Bristol (1727–1742) in the House of Commons. The seventh Baronet sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Bath. The eighth Baronet was High Sheriff of Somerset in 1895. The tenth Baronet was a pioneer of the British documentary film industry.
Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet PC, DL, JP was an English soldier and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1832 and 1885.
Sir Edmund Hope Verney, 3rd Baronet FRGS, DL, JP was a British naval officer, author and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1891.
Frederick William Verney was a younger son of the long-established Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire. He became a Church of England clergyman, a barrister, a Siamese diplomat, and a Liberal Party politician, serving as a member of both the Buckinghamshire and London County Councils, and from 1906 to 1910 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham.
Sir Harry Lloyd Verney was a British courtier who served in successive Royal Households of the United Kingdom.
Sir Edmund Ralph Verney, 6th Baronet succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Calvert, of Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, on 17 August 2001.
The Verney baronetcy, of Eaton Square in the City of Westminster, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 16 July 1946 for Ralph Verney, Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921 and Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons from 1921 to 1955. He was the son of Frederick William Verney, youngest son of the 2nd Baronet of the 1818 creation. He was succeeded by his son, the 2nd Baronet, a painter, illustrator and author.
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