John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh

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John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh (5 November 164023 June 1717) was an English peer and Tory politician.

The son of Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Bt and Mary Blacknall, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1696. Verney was Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckinghamshire from 1710 to 1715 and for Amersham from 1715 to 1717. On 16 June 1703, he was created Viscount Fermanagh, of the County of Fermanagh along with the subsidiary title Baron Verney of Belturbet, in the County of Cavan. Verney died aged 76 and was buried in Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire on 28 June 1717.

On 27 May 1680, he married firstly Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of Ralph Palmer, on 10 July 1692 secondly Mary Lawley, daughter of Sir Francis Lawley, Bt and on 8 April 1696 thirdly Elizabeth Baker, daughter of Daniel Baker. The first two marriages took place in Westminster Abbey in Westminster, the third in Kensington in London. Verney had one daughter and one son Ralph Verney by Elizabeth Palmer.

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Richard Hampden
Sir Edmund Denton, 1st Bt
Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire
with Sir Edmund Denton, 1st Bt 1710-1713
John Fleetwood 1713-1715

1710–1715
Succeeded by
John Fleetwood
Richard Hampden
Preceded by
John Drake
Francis Duncombe
Member of Parliament for Amersham
with Montague Garrard Drake

1715–1717
Succeeded by
The Viscount Fermanagh
Montague Garrard Drake
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
(new creation)
Viscount Fermanagh
1703–1717
Succeeded by
Ralph Verney
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Ralph Verney
Baronet
(of Middle Claydon)
1696–1717
Succeeded by
Ralph Verney

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