Name Sir Verner, | Died January 10, 1873 | |
Sir William Verner, 2nd Baronet (4 April 1822 – 10 January 1873), was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician.
William Verner was the son of Sir William Verner, 1st Baronet and of Harriet Wingfield, daughter of Colonel Edward Wingfield, who was the younger son of Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt.
After serving in the Coldstream Guards in 1841, Verner married on 6 August 1850 Mary Pakenham, daughter of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham.Their children included William, Edith and Alice Emily (died 1908), who married firstly Christopher Nevile Bagot of Augharne Castle, County Galway, who died in 1877, having by his last will disinherited their son William, a decision which led to the celebrated probate case Bagot v. Bagot, and secondly Major Reginald Roberts. The family lived at the Churchill estate in Northern Ireland and London. In the early 1860s they moved to Corke Abbey, a Wingfield estate, in Northern Ireland.
He was Member of Parliament for County Armagh between 1868 and 1873.
He died in 1873, one year after making a will and just a few years following the death of his father. He was buried in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.