X-Nico

unusual facts about Thomas Vernon



Hanbury, Worcestershire

The National Trust’s Hanbury Hall was built by the wealthy chancery lawyer Thomas Vernon in the early 18th century.


see also

Hanbury, Worcestershire

In the first decade of the eighteenth century Thomas Vernon also built Hanbury Hall, a fine brick mansion, now the property of the National Trust.

L'Inconnue de la Seine

Reinhold Conrad Muschler's 1934 widely translated best-selling novel Die Unbekannte tells the maudlin story of the fate of the provincial orphan Madeleine Lavin, who has fallen in love with the British diplomat Lord Thomas Vernon Bentick and, after a romance, commits suicide in the Seine when Bentick returns to his fiancée.