Robert Verney, 17th Baron Willoughby de Broke

Robert John Verney, 17th Baron Willoughby de Broke and de jure 25th Baron Latimer (7 October 1809 – 5 June 1862) (born Barnard) of Compton Verney in Warwickshire, was a peer in the peerage of England.

Origins

He was born Robert John Barnard on October 7, 1809, the eldest son of Reverend John Barnard (1760–1834) by his wife Louisa Verney, daughter of John Peyto-Verney, 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke.

Career

In 1852 he inherited the titles 17th Baron Willoughby de Broke and 25th Baron Latimer on the death of his uncle Henry Peyto-Verney, 16th Baron Willoughby de Broke (d.1852) and in 1853 was obliged to change his surname name to his maternal name of Verney as a condition of inheriting the Verney estates.

Marriage & progeny

On October 25, 1842, he married Georgiana Jane Taylor, a daughter of Maj-Gen Thomas William Taylor (1782-1854), CB, of Ogwell House, West Ogwell in Devon, an officer of the Honourable East India Company at Madras, and later Lt-Gov of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst[1] and a Groom of the Bedchamber to King William IV. Her sister Ann Frances Taylor married Sir Walter Palk Carew, 8th Baronet (1807–1874) of Haccombe in Devon.

Death & succession

He died on June 5 1862 and was succeeded in the titles by his only son Col. Henry Verney, 18th Baron Willoughby de Broke.

References

Peerage of England
Preceded by
Henry Peyto-Verney		 17th Baron Willoughby de Broke
1852–1862		 Succeeded by
Henry Verney


  1. ↑ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.145, pedigree of Carew
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