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The Vernon baronetcy, of Shotwick Park in Cheshire was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom for William Vernon on 24 January 1914. It is extant. Sir James Vernon, 5th Baronet, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Standing Council of the Baronetage. [5]
He was the father of James Vernon (d1756) who settled in Suffolk and of Admiral Edward Vernon (1684–1757). James' son Francis Vernon (1715–1783), Member of Parliament for Ipswich, was created Baron Orwell of Orwell Park, Nacton, Suffolk in 1762, Viscount Orwell in 1762 and Earl of Shipbrook in 1777. The Earldom was extinct on his death in 1783.
Sir James Vernon AC CBE FTSE (1910–2000) was an Australian Industrial Chemist who, amongst other things, served as Director of CSR (Colonial Sugar Refining Company) 1958–1982. [ 1 ]
Sir Vernon James Ellis (born 1 July 1947) was the chair of the British Council from 2010 to 2016. [1] Education. Ellis was educated at Magdalen College School ...
James Vernon (c. 1646 – c. 1727) was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1679 and 1710. He was Secretary of State for both the Northern and the Southern Departments during the reign of William III .
Sir David James Vernon Wills, 5th Baronet (born 1955) is the 5th Baronet of Blagdon, a title created in 1923 for the president of the Imperial Tobacco Company.. Wills is the son of Sir John Vernon Wills, 4th Bt. and Diana Baker.
Vernon was the eldest son of James Vernon and his wife Mary Buck, daughter of Sir John Buck, 1st Baronet, of Hamby Grange, Lincolnshire. His father was Secretary of State under William III. He was educated at Utrecht in 1690, at Rotterdam from 1690 to 1692 and a Utrecht again from 1696 to 1697.
James Vernon (politician, born 1646) (1646–1727), English administrator and Whig politician; James Vernon the Younger (1677–1756), British diplomat, civil servant, and briefly a Member of Parliament; James Vernon (chemist) (1910–2000), Australian industrial chemist, Director of CSR (Colonial Sugar Refining Company) 1958–82; James Vernon ...