Sir William Verner, 2nd Baronet

Who was Sir William Verner, 2nd Baronet?

Sir William Verner, 2nd Baronet, was a British soldier and politician.

William Verner was the son of Sir William Verner, 1st Baronet and of Harriet Wingfield, daughter of Colonel Wingfield who was a son of the 3rd Viscount Powerscourt.

After serving in the Coldstream Guards in 1841, Verner married on 6 August 1850 Mary Pakenham, daughter of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham. Their children included William, Edith and Amily Emily. The family lived at the Churchill estate in Northern Ireland and London. In the early 1860s moved to Corke Abbey, a Wingfield estate, County Dublin, Northern Ireland.

He was Member of Parliament for County Armagh between 1868 and 1873.

He died in 1873, one year after making a will and just a few years following the death of his father. He was buried in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.