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Arms of Robert Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby de Broke, Knight of the Garter Medieval wing of Brook Hall, a Grade I listed building, looking north-westwards, in July 2011. This is the only surviving remnant of the manor house built by Robert Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby de Broke on his manor of Brook, in Heywood parish, Wilts.
Born about 1452 at Brook, then written "Broke", in the parish of Westbury in Wiltshire, he was the son of Sir John Willoughby (1421-1477).His mother was Anne Cheyne, second daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edmund Cheyne (1401–1430) of Brook, by his wife Alice Stafford, only daughter and eventual heiress of Sir Humphrey Stafford (c.1379–1442) "With the Silver Hand", [3] of Hooke, Dorset, and ...
Richard Verney, 13th Baron Willoughby de Broke; John Peyto-Verney, 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke; John Peyto-Verney, 15th Baron Willoughby de Broke; Henry Peyto-Verney, 16th Baron Willoughby de Broke; Robert Verney, 17th Baron Willoughby de Broke; Henry Verney, 18th Baron Willoughby de Broke; Richard Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke ...
Robert Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby de Broke (died 1502), was born and raised at Brook Hall. [19] A close confidante of Henry VII, [19] he was created the first Baron Willoughby de Broke. [5] He rebuilt Brook Hall and installed many heraldic stained glass windows, which were recorded and described in 1650 by John Aubrey on his visit to Brook.
His mother was Hon. Louisa Verney (1769-1835), daughter of John Peyto-Verney, 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke of Compton Verney. Lighthorn was a manor held by the Verney family since 1667, [5] and Lighthorn Church, rebuilt by the 14th Baron in 1772, contains their family burial vault. [6]
On 29 May 2012, Willoughby de Broke introduced the Referendum (European Union) Bill 2012–13 to the House of Lords, to make provision for the holding of a referendum on the United Kingdom's continued membership of the European Union, on the same day as the next General Election. [10] [11] He left UKIP in the autumn of 2018.
Greville Verney was born in 1649, the only son of Greville Verney, 8th Baron Willoughby de Broke (c. 1620 – 1648), and Elizabeth Wenman. He inherited the title 9th Baron Willoughby de Broke and 17th Baron Latimer on the death of his father in 1648. He married on 29 August 1667 Lady Diana Russell, the daughter of William Russell, 1st Duke of ...
Verney was the son of Colonel Henry Verney, 18th Baron Willoughby de Broke and Geraldine Smith-Barry and educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. He married Marie Frances Lisette Hanbury, daughter of Charles Addington Hanbury, on 2 July 1895. They had one son, John Henry Peyto Verney, who succeeded him as 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke.