Sir Edward Wingfield Verner, 4th Baronet (1 October 1830 – 21 June 1899) was a Conservative Party politician in Ireland who sat in the

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from 1863 to 1880. Verner was the second son of Sir William Verner, Bt (1782–1871) and his wife Harriet Wingfield. He was educated at

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and

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. He married Selina Florence, daughter of Thomas Vesey Nugent, on 15 December 1864. Verner was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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in 1863. He contested a by-election in February of that year, and was narrowly defeated by the

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candidate, industrialist John Doherty Barbour. However, that result was overturned on

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and at a second by-election in June he won the seat by 151 votes to Barbour's 90. Verner held the Lisburn seat until 1873. His father

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had been one of the two MPs for

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, and on William's death Edward resigned his seat to stand in the by-election for Armagh. He was elected unopposed,Walker, op cit, p 250–251 and re-elected with a generous majority in

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. He stood down at the 1880 general election, when his nephew William Edward was defeated by the Liberal candidate

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. Outside of Parliament, Verner was

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in 1866. He lived at Corke Abbey,

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, and died on 21 June 1899.Sir Edward Wingfield Verner, 4th Baronet
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