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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.

VERNON, FRANCIS, 1ST EARL OF SHIPBROOK (I), second son of James Vernon, Great Thurlow, Suffolk, Envoy to Court of Denmark and a Commissioner of Excise, and Hon. Arethusa Boyle, dau. of Charles Boyle, 1st Baron Clifford of Lanesbrough [check]; nephew of Edward Vernon (adm. 1692, qv); bapt. St. Anne, Soho 27 Apr 1716 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Jan 1724/5; in school list 1731; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 21 Feb 1731/2, scholar 12 May 1732, matr. 1732, readm. as fellow commoner 30 Sep 1754 [sic, check]; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Jun 1737; Grand Tour; Leyden Univ., adm. 20 Jun 1732; member, Society of Dilettanti 1739; Extra Clerk, Privy Council 30 Nov 1738 - May 1757, Clerk 19 May 1757 - 22 Apr 1762; Commissioner, Victualling Office 27 Jul 1747- 20 Mar 1761; MP Ipswich 1761-8; created Baron Orwell (I) 7 Apr 1762; a Commissioner of Trade and Foreign Plantations 28 Dec 1762 - Jul 1765; created Viscount Orwell (I) 21 Jul 1776 and Earl of Shipbrook (I) 8 Feb 1777; m. 18 Jan 1747/8 Alice, dau. of Samuel Ibbetson, Denton, Yorks.; d. 15 Oct 1783.

VERNON, HENRY, eldest son of Henry Vernon MP, Hilton, Staffs., and Penelope, second dau. of Robert Phillips, Newton Regis, Warwicks.; b. 13 Sep 1718; adm. Feb 1727/8; left 1733; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 17 May 1735, matr. 1735; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Jan 1738/9; Grand Tour (Italy) 1739-40, with Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bart. (qv); member, Society of Dilettanti 1742; MP Lichfield 29 Jan - 8 Apr 1754, 15 Jan 1755-61, Newcastle under Lyme 1761 - Dec 1762; a Commissioner of Excise from Dec 1762; of Hilton Park, Wolverhampton, Staffs.; m. 26 Dec 1743 Lady Henrietta Wentworth, youngest dau. of Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford; d. 25 May 1765.

VILLIERS, JAMES FITZGERALD, LORD VILLIERS, elder son of John Villiers, 1st Earl Grandison (I), and Frances, dau. of Edward Cary, Caldecot [check county], and sister of Lucius Henry Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland (S); b.; adm. (aged 7) Jul 1718; left 1718; at Eton Coll. in 1725; MP (I) Co. Waterford from 1730; m. 11 Jul 1728 Jane, dau. of Richard Butler, London, “an eminent conveyancer”; d. 12 Dec 1732.

VINCENT, SIR (CHARLES EDWARD) HOWARD, brother of Arthur Frederick Vincent (qv); b. 31 May 1849; adm. 26 May 1864 (G); left Aug 1865; RMC Sandhurst Nov 1866; Ensign, 23rd Foot 22 Jul 1868; Lieut., 28 Oct 1871; ret. Aug 1873; Special Correspondent, Daily Telegraph, at Berlin in 1871 and during Russian-Turkish War 1876; adm. Inner Temple 3 May 1873, called to bar 26 Jan 1876; South-Eastern Circuit; Director of Criminal Investigations, Metropolitan Police 1878-84; Col. -Commandant, Queenís Westminster Volunteers 1884-1904, later Hon. Col., VD; MP (Conservative) Sheffield Central from 1885; member, Metropolitan Board of Works 1888-9, London County Council 1889-96; one of the British delegates to Anti-Anarchist Conference, Rome 1898; ADC to Edward VII from 1901; CB 23 Jan 1886; knighted 17 Jan 1896; KCMG 3 Jun 1899; DL JP Co. London, JP Middlesex, Berkshire; a consistent advocate of imperial protection, founding in 1891 the United Empire Trade League, of which he was Hon. Secretary; Chairman, National Union of Conservative Associations 1895; the Acts of Parliament dealing with the probation of first offenders, 1887, and for the appointment of a public trustee, 1906, were mainly due to his persistence; author, A Police Code and Manual of Criminal Law, 1882, and other works; m. 26 Oct 1882 Ethel Gwendoline, second dau. of George Moffatt MP, Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; d. at Menton, France 7 Apr 1908. DNB.

VINCENT, HENRY; b. ; adm. ; KS 1700. [Possibly Sir Henry Vincent, Bart. , fourth but eldest surviving son of Sir Francis Vincent, Bart. MP, Stoke D’Abernon, Surrey, and Rebecca, dau. of Jonathan Ashe, London, merchant; bapt. Stoke D’Abernon, Surrey 10 Jul 1685 (IGI); Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Oct 1703, aged 18; MP Guildford 21 Feb 1728-34; succ. father as 6th baronet 10 Feb 1736; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Bazaliel Sherman, London, Turkey merchant; d. 20 Jan 1757 : see William Vincent, below]

VINCENT, SIR MATHIAS, brother of Thomas Vincent (elected to Oxford 1647, qv); b.; adm. 1656 (school lists 1656, last two quarters); an undated petition by his mother Sarah to the Governors for a scholarship for Mathias, one of her two youngest children “now schollers at Westminster Schoole”, is in the Chapter Muniments (no. 43101); apprenticed to merchant, London; later Factor at Surat for EI Company; made a large fortune and returned to England; knighted 20 Mar 1684/5; MP Lostwithiel from 1685; Alderman, Aldgate Ward, City of London, from 30 Apr 1686; m.; d. c. May 1687 (will proved PCC 15 Jun 1687).

WALCOT, CHARLES, son of John Walcot MP, Walcot, Shropshire, and Mary, dau. of Sir Francis Dashwood, Bart., MP; bapt. 22 Mar 1738; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1748 (Grant's); in school list 1754; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 6 Mar 1756; MP Weymouth 30 Apr 1763-8; Clerk to Accountant-General, Post Office (occurs 1774-83); Controller of Penny Post, Post Office; of Bitterley Court, Shropshire; High Sheriff, Shropshire 1782; m. 17 Jul 1764 his cousin Anne, sister of Richard Levett (adm. 1740, qv); buried Bitterley, Shropshire 27 Sep 1799.

WALKER-HENEAGE, GEORGE HENEAGE, eldest son of George Wyld (qv); b. 17 Jul 1799; adm. 30 May 1809; KS 1812; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1817, matr. 22 May 1817, Westminster Student; assumed surname of Walker-Heneage in lieu of Wyld 20 Aug 1818; BA 1821; MA 1823; MP (Cons) Devizes 1838-57; DL JP Wiltshire, High Sheriff 1829; Chief Proclamator, Court of Common Pleas, and hereditary Chief Usher, Court of Exchequer Nov 1822 – Jun 1852, when post abolished; m. 7 Aug 1824 Harriet Sarah, eldest dau. of William Webber, Binfield Lodge, Berks.; d. 21 Sep 1875.

WARD, SIR HENRY GEORGE, only son of Robert Ward (afterwards Plumer-Ward) MP, Clerk of the Ordnance, Gilston Park, Herts., barrister, politician and novelist, and his first wife Catherine Julia, dau. of Christopher Thompson Maling, West Herrington, co. Durham; b. 27 Feb 1797; adm. 14 Jun 1808; KS (aged 13) 1810; left 1810; went to Harrow Sch.; attaché, British Legation, Stockholm 1816, The Hague 1818, Madrid 1819; Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico Oct 1823-7; MP (Whig) St. Albans 1832-7, Sheffield 1837- May 1849; Secretary to the Admiralty 1846 – May 1849; High Commissioner, Ionian Islands May 1849 – Apr 1855; Governor of Ceylon May 1855 – Jun 1860; Governor of Madras from Jun 1860; GCMG 1849; author, Mexico in 1825-7; m. 8 Apr 1824 Emily Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Edward Swinburne, Bart.; d. from cholera at Madras, India 2 Aug 1860.