Name Robert 17th Died 1862 | Coronation date 1852 Deposed date 1862 | |
Robert John Verney, 17th Baron Willoughby de Broke and de jure 25th Baron Latimer (7 October 1809 – 5 June 1862) (born Barnard) of Compton Verney in Warwickshire, was a peer in the peerage of England.
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Origins
He was born Robert John Barnard on October 7, 1809, the eldest son of Reverend John Barnard (1760–1834) by his wife Louisa Verney, daughter of John Peyto-Verney, 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke.
Career
In 1852 he inherited the titles 17th Baron Willoughby de Broke and 25th Baron Latimer on the death of his uncle Henry Peyto-Verney, 16th Baron Willoughby de Broke (d.1852) and in 1853 was obliged to change his surname name to his maternal name of Verney as a condition of inheriting the Verney estates.
Marriage & progeny
On October 25, 1842, he married Georgiana Jane Taylor, a daughter of Maj-Gen Thomas William Taylor (1782-1854), CB, of Ogwell House, West Ogwell in Devon, an officer of the Honourable East India Company at Madras, and later Lt-Gov of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and a Groom of the Bedchamber to King William IV. Her sister Ann Frances Taylor married Sir Walter Palk Carew, 8th Baronet (1807–1874) of Haccombe in Devon.
Death & succession
He died on June 5 1862 and was succeeded in the titles by his only son Col. Henry Verney, 18th Baron Willoughby de Broke.