Francis Venables-Vernon, 9th Baron Vernon

Lord Vernon was born on 6 November 1889 into the prominent Vernon family. His sister, Frances Lawrance Venables-Vernon, married Maurice Raoul-Duval and his elder brother, George Francis Augustus Venables-Vernon, 8th Baron Vernon, died in 1915 from illness contracted while on service in Gallipoli. He was educated at Eton College before attending Christ Church, Oxford. ==Career==

During World War I, he fought in the North Sea and Mediterranean, gaining the rank of Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire. ==Personal life==

On 9 February 1915, he married Violet Miriam Nightingale Clay (–1978), daughter of Col. Charles Herbert Clay of the Indian Army and Violet Harriet Nightingale (a daughter of Sir Henry Nightingale, 13th Baronet). They divorced in 1982 and he married Sally June Stratford, a daughter of Robin Stratford, in 1982. Lord Vernon died at Sudbury Hall on 18 March 1963 at age 73. Four years after his death, his son John gifted the family seat, Sudbury Hall, to the National Trust in 1967. Descendants Through his daughter Avice, he was a grandfather of Michael Francis Marten, who married Lady Caroline St Clair-Erskine (only daughter of Anthony St Clair-Erskine, 6th Earl of Rosslyn) in 1991. ==References==