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5 unusual facts about Sir Harry Verney


Banbury Merton Street railway station

The line was to be worked from the outset by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) which had supported the building of the line and which was represented on the board of the Buckinghamshire Railway by Edward Watkin who, together with the Duke of Buckingham and local landowner Sir Harry Verney M.P., was one of the driving forces behind the line.

Calvert railway station

Although the station was named Calvert, no such place existed at the time and the name was that of the local landowner, Sir Harry Verney, who had been born a Calvert but changed his name upon succeeding to the Verney Baronetcy.

Harry Verney

Sir Harry Verney, 4th Baronet (1881–1974), British politician, MP for Buckingam 1910–1918

Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet (1801–1894), British politician, MP for Buckingham three times between 1832 and 1885

Sir Harry Verney, 4th Baronet

He served under H. H. Asquith as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1914 to 1915.



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