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Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757
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1684-1757
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VERNON, EDWARD, second son of Right Hon. James Vernon MP, Watford, Herts., Secretary of State, and Mary, dau. of Sir John Buck MP; nephew of Francis Vernon (KS 1649, qv); b. 12 Nov 1684; adm. 1692 (D. Ford, Admiral Vernon and the Navy, 1907, 2); left 1700; entered Royal Navy as Kingís Letter Boy on HMS Shrewsbury 10 May 1700; Lieut., 16 Sep 1702; Cdr.; Capt., 22 Jan 1705/6; Rear-Adm.; Vice-Adm., 9 Jul 1739; Adm. of the White Apr 1745; commanded expedition to West Indies 1739-42; captured Porto Bello 22 Nov 1739, but failed at Cartagena, Cuba and Panama; in command in North Sea 1745; cashiered 11 Apr 1746, for attacking the Admiralty in anonymous pamphlets; MP Penryn 1722-34, Portsmouth 21 Feb - 27 Apr 1741, Ipswich from 1741; apostrophised as the “gallant Vernon” in Thomson’s Seasons, Summer, lines 1040-51; known in the navy as “Old Grog”, being the first to issue rum diluted with water; m. 15 Jul 1729 Sarah, dau. of Thomas Best, Chatham, Kent, brewer; d. 30 Oct 1757. Monument in Westminster Abbey. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.