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 198 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. ■with Sir Henry at Hadclon, where one of the apartments was called " the Prince's cham- ber." Sir Henry m. Anne, daughter of John, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, by whom he had (with six daughters and four younger sons) , I. Eichard (Sir), who inherited Haddbn, and marrying Margaret, daughter of Sir Kobert IJymoke, Ent., left at his decease, in l?il7, Greorge (Sir), of Haddon, who d. in 1567, seized of thirty manors, leaving by Margaret, daughter of George, Lord Talboys, two daugh- ters, his co-heirs, viz., Dorothy, in. to Sir John Man- ners. Margaret, m. to Thomas Stan- ley, 2nd son of Edward, Earl of Derby. II. Thomas, of Stocksey, whose grand- son, Henry, claimed the barony of Powys. He d. s.p. 1606 ; is buried at Newington. III. Htjmphket. IV. John (Sir), was one of the king's council in Wales, and custos rotulorum of Derby ; m. Ellen, daughter and co- heiress, witb her sisters Anne and Dorothy, of Sir John de Montgomerie, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Gresley ; she inherited S iidbury. Sir John Vernon d. 1545, and was s. by his only son, Sir Henry Vernon, of Sudbury, who m. in 1547, Margaret, daughter and co-heir with her sister, Elizabeth, of Humphrey Swin- nerton, of Swinnerton and Hil- ton, by Cassandra, daughter of Sir John Gifford. He died 1569, leaving two sons and two daughters, John, who m. Mary, daughter . of Edward Littleton, of Pil- laton, and widow of Walter Vernon, of Houndshill, but d. s.p. 1600. Buried at Sudbury. Henry, of Hilton, m. Dorothy, daughter of Sir Anthony Heveningham, and d. 21st June, 15!_)2, leaving Margaret, an only daughter, his heiress, who was b. three months after the death of her father ; she m. her third cousin, Sir Edward Vernon. This Sir Henry Vernon gave the great bell to Tonge, of 48 cwt., and 6 yards round, and a rent out of his manor of Norton " for the tolling of it when any Vernon comes to town." He d. in 1511. The third of his sons, HuMEHEEY Vebnon, Esq., m. Alice, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Lvid- low, of Hodnet, eo. Salop, and grand- daughter, maternally, of Eichard Grey, Lord Powis, and left at his decease, in 1542 (with other issue), two sons. George, who inherited Hodnet, and whose great grandson, Henry Vernon, Esq., was created a bart. in 1660, a dignity that expired with the third bart.. Sir Eichard Vernon ; but the estate of Hodnet ultimately passed through Elizabeth, only daughter of the first bart., to her granddaughter, Elizabeth Atherton, wife of Thomas Heber, Esq., of Marton (see Burke's Landed Gentry). Thomas. The second son, Thomas Veenon, Esq., who m. Helena, daughter of Ealph Shirley, and left, in 1556, an only son, Walter Veenon, Esq. of Houndshill, b. 1552 ; m. Mary, daughter of Edward Little- ton, Esq. of Pillaton, co. Stafford, and was s. in 1592, by his only surviving son, SiE Edwaed Veenon, Knt., of Hounds' hill, b. 14th December, 1584 ; m. 1613, his cousin, Margaret, daughter and sole heiress of Henry Vernon, Esq. of Hilton and Esing- ton, CO. Stafibrd. He d. 16th June, 1657, leaving (besides six daughters, amongst whom were Anne, m. George Harper, Esq. of Twyford, eo. Derby ; and Mary Catherine Grace Elizabeth, d. unni.) three sons, viz., I. Henry (Sir), of Sudbury, Hounds- hill, &c., h. 1615; m. 21st September, 1634, Muriel, daughter and sole heiress of Sir George Vernon, Knt., of Haslington, judge of the Common Pleas, and was ancestor of the Ver- nons of Sudbury (now Lords Vernon), the Vernons of Hilton Park, Harefield, &c. II. Edward (Colonel), of North Aston, CO. Stafford, had a grant of the castle and lands of Clontarf, co. Dublin. He m. a sister of Joseph Guldeford, Esq., and had issue, Mary, who d. unm., and Elizabeth. III. John, of whose line we treat. The third son, John Veenon, Esq. of Clontarf, co. Dublin, quartermaster-general of the army in Ireland, m. first, Anne, daughter of James Huish, Esq. of Sand, Devon, and had a son, John, who d. in London, unm. He m. secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Fulke Walwyn, Esq. of Much Marcle, Hereford, and d. intestate 13th March, 1670, leaving issue. The son and heir, Ebv. Edwaed Veenon, of Eedmile, co. Leicester, m. Lettice, daughter of John Bankes, of Uttoxeter, co. Stafford, and had issue, I. John, his heir; ii. Edward, D.D., rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury, Middle- sex, d. unm. 1765; and I. Catherine, m Yeates, Esq. The elder son, John Veenon, a captain in the army, afterwards of Clontarf Castle, co. Dublin, m. Dorothy, sister of Hans Otto Grahn, a Hanoverian nobleman, by whom (who d. 7th May, 1773) he had issue, I. Geoege, his heir. II. Edward, of Dublin, captain 4th Dragoons, high sheriff of Dublin 1768 ;