Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Verney, Hon. John
Verney, Hon. John, D.C.L. by diploma 17 May, 1737, attorney-general of Queen Caroline 1729, chief justice of Chester, Dec., 1733, master of the Rolls 1738, P.C. 1738 (son of Rev. and Hon. George Verney, canon of Windsor), died 5 Aug., 1741, father of John Peyton, 6th Baron Willoughby de Broke. See Foster's Peerage.