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Vernon 1806–7, ably edited by John Raithby [q. v.]; and another edition appeared in 1828.

Vernon has been sometimes confused in error with Thomas Vernon of Twickenham Park, Middlesex, formerly secretary to the Duke of Monmouth. This person was a lord commissioner of trade and foreign plantations from September 1713 to September 1714, and was M.P. for Whitchurch as a tory from 1710 till he was expelled the house in May 1721, and again from 1722 till his death in 1726.

[Information supplied by Sir H. F. Vernon, bart., of Hanbury Hall; Official Returns of Members of Parliament; Wallace's Reporters; Pope's Works, ed. Roscoe; Nash's History of Worcestershire; Williams's Worcestershire Members.] 

VERNON, THOMAS (1824?–1872), engraver, was born in Staffordshire about 1824, and studied first in Paris and later in England, where he was a pupil of Peter Lightfoot. He worked in pure line, and became one of the best engravers of figure subjects of his day. He engraved for Samuel Carter Hall's ‘Royal Gallery of Art’ Dyce's ‘Virgin Mother,’ Winterhalter's portrait of Princess Helena as an amazon, and two other plates; also several for the ‘Art Journal.’ Vernon's latest and most important work was ‘Christ healing the Paralytic,’ from the picture by Murillo formerly belonging to Colonel Tomline, M.P., who presented the plate to the Newspaper Press Fund. He died on 23 Jan. 1872.

[Art Journal, 1872; Curtis's Velazquez and Murillo, 1883.] 

VÉRON, JOHN (d. 1563), protestant controversialist, was born at or near Sens, for he styled himself Senonensis, but at what date is unknown. He studied at Orleans in 1534, and about 1536 settled in England, for his letters of denisation, 2 July 1544, state that he had been eight years in that country, that he had been a student at Cambridge (apparently without graduating), and that he was, and intended continuing to be, a tutor. In 1548 he published a volume entitled ‘Certyne Litel Treaties set forth by J. V. for the erudition and learnyng of the symple and ignorant peopell,’ London, 16mo. It included ‘The Five abominable Blasphemies contained in the Mass’ (cf. English Hist. Rev. x. 419–21), an English translation of Bullinger's treatise against the anabaptists, ‘The Byble the Word of God,’ ‘No Humane Lymmes the Father hath,’ and ‘The Masse is an Idol.’ In 1550 he had removed to Worcester, where he dedicated to Sir John Yorke [q. v.] ‘The godly Sayings of the ancient Fathers on the Sacrament’ (Worcester, 8vo; reprinted from this edition, London, 1846, 8vo). There he also translated Zwingle's ‘Short Pathway to the Understanding of the Scriptures,’ dedicated to Sir Arthur Darcy, and Bullinger on ‘Infant Baptism.’ ‘The Ymage of both Pastours’ appeared at London in 1550. On 21 Aug. 1551 he was ordained deacon by Ridley at Fulham, and on the 29th of the same month he received priest's orders. He was instituted on 3 Jan. 1552 to the rectory of St. Alphage, Cripplegate. He witnessed, or was in some way implicated in, the uproar at Paul's Cross, which led on 16 Aug. 1553 to the arrest of John Bradford (1510?–1555) [q. v.], for Véron was likewise committed to the Tower, both being styled ‘seditious preachers’ (Acts of Privy Council, ed. Dasent, iv. 321; Works of Thomas Becon, Parker Soc. 1843). Ridley, writing to Bradford in 1554, inquired for Véron (see, Martyrs), who in 1554 was deprived of his benefice and remained a prisoner till Queen Elizabeth's accession. He published while in the Tower a translation of Bullinger's ‘Dialogue between a Libertine and a Christian.’ On his release he became a preacher at Paul's Cross, was appointed prebendary of St. Paul's on 8 Nov. 1559, rector of St. Martin, Ludgate, on 8 March 1559–60, and vicar of St. Sepulchre on 21 Oct. 1560, which preferments he held till his death. On 8 Oct. 1559 he preached before the queen at Whitehall, when he urged that protestant bishops should retain the old temporalities of their sees, so as to live in proper style. Aspersions were cast on his character, and on 2 Nov. 1561 a man did penance at Paul's Cross for calumniating Véron, while on the 23rd of the same month Henry Machyn [q. v.] had also publicly to apologise. Machyn disliked Véron, and seems to have nicknamed him ‘White-hair.’ About 1560 Véron published ‘A moste necessary treatise of free wil not onlye against the Papists, but also against the Anabaptists’ (London, 8vo); and in 1561 ‘The Huntynge of Purgatorye to Death’ (London, 8vo), dedicated to the Earl of Bedford, and ‘The Overthrow of the Justification of Works,’ dedicated to James Blount, lord Mountjoy. He was likewise the author of ‘A frutefull Treatise of Predestination … with an Apology of the same … whereunto are added … a very necessary boke against the free wyll men, and another of the true justification of faith and the good workes proceadynge of the same’ (London, 1563? 8vo), dedicated to the queen; ‘A strong defence of the Marryage of Pryestes,’ and ‘A strong Battery