Sir Lawrence John Verney, TD, DL (19 July 1924 – 25 July 2014) was a British judge. He was

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from 1990 to 1998. Lawrence Verney was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Harry Calvert Williams Verney, 4th Baronet by his wife Rachel Gwenyfyr Catherine, daughter of

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. His eldest brother was

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. Another brother,

Stephen Edmund Verney Stephen Edmund Verney, MBE (17 April 1919 – 9 November 2009) was the second Bishop of Repton from 1977 to 1985; and from then on an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Oxford. Toward the end of WWII Verney worked as an undercover ...

, was

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from 1977 to 1985. Educated at

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and

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, Verney was called to the bar by the

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in 1952.

References

* https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-41075 * https://www.buckinghamtoday.co.uk/news/obituaries/tributes-paid-judge-who-spared-rolling-stone-jail-2630551 {{DEFAULTSORT:Verney, Lawrence 1924 births 2014 deaths Recorders of London Deputy Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire 20th-century English judges Knights Bachelor People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Members of the Inner Temple British Freemasons British barristers