VERNON, George (1575/6-1639), of the Inner Temple, London and Haslington, Cheshire

Family and Education

b. 1575 /6,CHES 3/95/15. o.s. of Sir Thomas Vernon of Haslington and Dorothy, da. of William Egerton of Betley, Staffs. Vis. Cheshire (Harl. Soc. lix), 243-4. educ. I. Temple 1594, called 1603. I. Temple Admiss.; CITR, ii. 2. m. (1) Jane, da. of Richard Corbet of Stoke upon Tern, Salop, 3da. (2 d.v.p.); (2) settlement 8 Sept. 1614 (with £1,300), Alice, da. of Sir George Booth, 1st bt. of Dunham Massey, Cheshire, s.p. Vis. Cheshire, 243-4; WARD 7/94/212. suc. fa. 1616; CHES 3/95/15. Kntd. 23 Dec. 1627. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 193. d. 1970. Les Reportes de Sir William Jones (1675), p. 450; CHES 3/105/9. sig. Geo[rge] Vernonn.

Offices Held

Bencher, I. Temple 1619 – 27, steward, reader’s dinner 1619, autumn reader 1621; CITR, ii. 113–14, 124; Readers and Readings at Inns of Ct. and Chancery ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. xiii), 97. sjt.-at-law 1627;Order of Sjts.-at-Law ed. J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. suppl. ser. v), 184. Exch. bar. 1627 – 31, j.c.p. 1631–d.; Sainty, Judges, 32, 75. judge of assize, Home circ. 1629 – 31, Northern circ. 1633–d. J.S. Cockburn, Hist. Eng. Assizes, 271–2; Strafforde Letters (1739) ed. W. Knowler, i. 129.

Commr. oyer and terminer, Mdx. 1628 – d., London 1629 – d., Northern circ. 1632–d. C181/3, f. 244; 181/4, ff. 34, 119v.

Member, High Commission, York and Canterbury provs. 1633–?d. CSP Dom. 1633–4, p. 326.

Parlimentarian

VERNON, George (1575/6-1639), of the Inner Temple, London and Haslington, Cheshire

Main residences: the Inner Temple, London; Haslington, Cheshire.

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

VERNON, George (1575/6-1639)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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