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VEVERS, RICHARD WILLIAM, eldest son of Richard Vevers (qv); b. 25 Nov 1778; adm.; KS 1793; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1797, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1797, scholar 20 Apr 1798; BA 1801; MA 1816; EI Maritime Service; 6th mate, ship Walmer Castle 1805/6; ordained; Vicar of Marton and of Great Carlton, Lincs., 25 Jun 1812; Rector of Somersal Herbert, Derbs., 15 Oct 1821; Rector of Cubley and Marston Montgomery, Derbs., from 2 Mar 1832; m. Frances Stanhope Darby, natural dau. of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield; d. 24 Jan 1858.

VESEY, JOHN, only son of Ven. Thomas Vesey, Archdeacon of Armagh and Rector of Coleraine, co. Londonderry, previously a Presbyterian minister; b. 10 Mar 1637/8; at school under Busby (Cotton, Fasti Eccl. Hib., iii, 386); Trinity Coll. Dublin; MA 1667; DD 1672 (incorp. Cambridge [check date]); ordained deacon and priest (Raphoe) during Commonwealth; Chaplain, Irish House of Commons 1661; Archdeacon of Armagh 16 Oct 1662 - May 1663; Prebendary of Cloyne 1664-7, Treasurer 4 Nov 1667-73; Prebendary of Limerick 4 Feb 1666/7-73; Dean of Cork 4 Nov 1667 - 1672/3; consecrated Bishop of Limerick 12 Jan 1672/3; translated to Archbishopric of Tuam 18 Mar 1678/9; forced to leave Tuam during Lord Lieutenancy of Earl of Tyrconnel, and was proscribed by Parliament of James II; retired to London, where he obtained a lectureship with a salary of £40 p. a.; returned to his diocese after the Revolution of 1688; one of Lord Justices of Ireland 1712, 1714; Vice-Chancellor, Dublin Univ. 1713-4; author, The Life of John Bramhall, Archbishop and Primate of All Ireland, prefixed to an edition of Bramhall’s Works, 1678; lic. to m. 1st, 11 Jun 1662 Rebecca Wilson, Cork House, Dublin; m. 2nd, Anne, dau. of Col. Agmondesham Muschamp; d. 28 Mar 1716. DNB.

VERNON, RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS 1682; d. at school.

VERNON, JOHN; b.; adm.; at school Mich. 1804 (Clapham); left 1806.

VERNON, JOHN, younger brother of Henry Vernon (qv); b. 20 Jan 1720; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1727/8; left 1733; d. at Cairo, Egypt 16 May 1747. [Identification seems clear, despite discrepant age given in admission register, as he and Henry Vernon (qv) were adm. same month and left in same year].

Vernon, John Campion, brother of Frank Allardyce Vernon (q.v.); b. Feb. 21, 1885; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (H); left Easter 1904; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1904; enlisted in H.A.C. Aug. 8, 1914; Sergt.; served in Belgium and France Sept. 1914 - June 1915; wounded at St. Eloi May 24, 1915; secretary of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers 1931-49; m. Sept. 29, 1923; Gladys Bedington Windsor, daughter of Frederick Windsor­ Richards, of Leeds; d. July 27, 1950.

Vernon, John Anthony Benedict, brother of Denis Sydney Foster Vernon (qv); b. 3 Aug. 1916; adm. May 1930 (B); left Apr. 1934; St John's Coll. Oxf., matric. 1935, BA 1938, MA; lntell. Corps in WW2 (Maj.), seconded Political Warfare Executive; staff of British Inst. Rome, later of UN High Commissioner for Refugees Geneva; international staff NATO 1952, dep. Dir. of Infor­mation 1978; OBE 1982; m. 21 May 1949 Susanna Mary Josephine Catherine, d. of Maj.-Gen. Boleslaw Wienawa Dlugoszowski, Polish Ambassador to Rome; d. 15 Oct. 2011.

VERNON, JAMES, son of Edward Vernon (adm. 1692, qv); b. 6 Nov 1730; adm. (aged 10) May 1741 (Levett's); left 1748; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 5 Jan 1749/50, but did not matr.; reprimanded by the Vice-Chancellor for interfering with the Senior Proctor in the exercise of his duties on the occasion of the Westminster Club dinner at which Thomas Francklin (qv) presided, 17 Nov 1750; d. 25 Jul 1753, on his return from the south of France.