VERNEY, Greville (c.1587-1642), of Compton Verney and Kineton, Warws.

Family and Education

b. c. 1587, 1st s. of Sir Richard Verney* of Compton Verney and Margaret, da. of Sir Fulke Greville of Beauchamp’s Court, Alcester, Warws.Aged 32 in 1619: Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 25. educ. G. Inn 1600; ?Camb. Univ.; GI Admiss.; HMC Cowper, i. 38. travelled abroad 1607-10 (France, ?Switzerland, ?Italy), ?1612, ?1615 (Low Countries). CSP Dom. 1603-10, p. 379; HMC Cowper, i. 68; SO3/5, unfol.; APC, 1615-16, p. 250. m. 18 May 1618, WARD 7/86/148. Katherine (d. 13 Apr. 1657), da. of Robert Southwell of Woodrising, Norf., 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da. W. Dugdale, Antiqs. of Warws. (2nd edn. 1730), i. 568, 570, 572. Kntd. 1 Oct. 1617; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 166. suc. fa. 1630, mo. 1631. WARD 7/86/148; C142/514/55. d. 12 May 1642. Dugdale, i. 568. sig. Grevill Verney.

Offices Held

Commr. new buildings, London 1625, T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 1, p. 70. knighthood fines, Warws. 1630–1, E178/5687, ff. 5, 9; 178/7154, f. 189c. j.p. 1630–d., C231/5, p. 43; A. Hughes, Pols. Soc. and Civil War in Warws. 351. sheriff 1635–6, List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 147. commr. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 1639–d., C181/5, ff. 141v, 220v. assessment, Warws. 1641–d. SR, v. 67, 90, 156.

?Gent. of privy chamber from 1625. SP16/2/118.

Parlimentarian

VERNEY, Greville (c.1587-1642), of Compton Verney and Kineton, Warws.

Main residences: Compton Verney; Kineton, Warws.

Author

P.M.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

VERNEY, Greville (c.1587-1642)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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