Richard Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1869 - 1923) was a British peer.

The historian George Dangerfield described him as "a genial and sporting young peer, whose face bore a pleasing resemblance to the horse...He had quite a gift for writing, thought clearly, and was not more than two hundred years behind his time".[1]

[edit] Publications

  • Lord Willoughby de Broke, 'The Tory Tradition', National Review (October, 1911), pp. 201-13.
  • Lord Willoughby de Broke, The Passing Years (London: Constable, 1924).

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (Stanford University Press, 1997), p. 47.

[edit] Further reading

  • Gregory D. Phillips, 'Lord Willoughby de Broke and the Politics of Radical Toryism, 1909-1914', The Journal of British Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Autumn, 1980), pp. 205-224.
  • Thomas C. Kennedy, 'Tory radicalism and the home rule crisis, 1910-1914: The case of Lord Willoughby de Broke', Canadian Journal of History, Apr. 2002.[1]
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Henry Verney
Baron Willoughby de Broke
1902-1923
Succeeded by
John Verney