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Vernon, Francis, 1716-1783
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1716-1783
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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.
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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.