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    The Verney family purchased the manor of Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1460s and still resides there today at the manor house known...
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    the grounds of Claydon House, a National Trust property. The house was the home of Sir Edmund Verney, an English Civil War Royalist, and of Florence Nightingale...
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    Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Claydon has been the ancestral home of the Verney family since 1620. The church of All Saints, Middle Claydon lies...
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  • Gibbs, Robert (1888). Worthies of Buckinghamshire and Men of Note of that County. Aylesbury: R. Gibbs. p. 386. Verney family of Middle Claydon v t e...
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    He died, aged 82 and was buried at Middle Claydon on 9 October 1696. His eldest son Edmund predeceased him and Verney was succeeded in the baronetcy by...
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    Frederick William Verney (26 February 1846 – 26 April 1913) was a younger son of the long-established Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire...
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    Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney PC, FRS (1 February 1714 – 31 March 1791), was a member of the Verney family of Middle Claydon and a British politician....
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  • home of the Verney family (relatives of Florence Nightingale) and now in the care of the National Trust Botolph Claydon, Buckinghamshire East Claydon, Buckinghamshire...
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    Verney Junction is a hamlet in the parish of Middle Claydon in north Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the route of the former Varsity Line. As of December...
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    (which the Giffard family had held by lease from the Verneys), where he was the near neighbour of Sir Thomas Chaloner of Steeple Claydon. His financial sense...
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    created a Baronet, of Middle Claydon in the County of Buckingham, in the Baronetage of England. His son Sir John Verney, Bt, was a member of parliament for...
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    Synopsis of the Extinct Baronetage of England. London: G. Woodfall. pp. 204–205. "VERNEY, John, 1st Visct. Fermanagh [I] (1640-1717), of Middle Claydon, Bucks"...
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  • archives of the Verney family, having been inherited by Mary Blacknall (1616–1650), who married Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon (1613–1696)...
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    Mary Blacknall (category Verney family)
    Mary Verney (née Blacknall, 1616 – 10 May 1650) was the wife of Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon DL, JP (1613–1696), an English baronet...
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    preserved at Claydon House. A full-length oil portrait of Verney, in the style of the Spanish school, is also displayed at the estate. Interest in Verney carried...
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  • John Verney, 2nd Baronet, MC (30 September 1913 – 2 February 1993) was an author, illustrator, painter, and soldier. His best-known work is a memoir of his...
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  • Ralph Verney, 1st Earl Verney (18 March 1683 – 4 October 1752), of Middle Claydon, near Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, known as The Viscount Fermanagh until...
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    unpublished material from the Verney Collections at Claydon and from archival documents from about 200 archives around the world, some of which had been published...
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    the village of Steeple Claydon. Originally named after a wealthy local family who had inherited property at Claydon House, Middle Claydon, on condition...
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    surname by Royal Licence to Verney to inherit the Verney family estates of his cousin Mary Verney, 1st Baroness Fermanagh. From 1829, he studied at Downing...
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    Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye (category Year of birth uncertain)
    second daughter, who married Sir Ralph Verney (1509–1546), of Pendley in Tring, Hertfordshire, and of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, whose monumental brasses...
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  • had married Sir Ralph Verney of Middle Claydon. In 1835, Otway-Cave petitioned that the title of Baron Braye be called out of abeyance in her favor....
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    Maria Verney (née Hay-Williams or Williams-Hay) (3 December 1844 – 7 October 1930), was an English-born Welsh educationist. Verney was the daughter of Lady...
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    John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye (category Year of birth uncertain)
    Baron Cobham; Elizabeth, who married Sir Ralph Verney, of Pendley and Middle Claydon; Frideswide, who married Sir Percival Hart; Mary, who married Sir Robert...
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    Hertfordshire, and of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, whose monumental brasses with heraldic shields survive in the Church of St. John the Baptist...
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    Francis Hynde (category High sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire)
    of Urian Verney, whose 1608 monument to his father in Middle Claydon church enumerates her among his own brothers and sisters as being a daughter of Sir...
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    railway, this time on the initiative of the second Duke of Buckingham together with local landowner Sir Harry Verney who formed the Buckinghamshire Railway...
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    Benjamin Jowett (category Vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford)
    enforcement of sanitary regulations in the large towns." When an old man he visited Claydons, where Margaret Verney donated him a print portrait of Florence...
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    Aylesbury (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from October 2024)
    A further expansion of rail services to a new Winslow railway station, Milton Keynes Central, Bedford and Oxford via the Claydon LNE Junction (see East...
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    23 – Dionysius IV of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch (b. 1620) September 24 – Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon, English Baronet (b...
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