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48 PART III EARLY HISTORY OF HADDON HALL BY S. RAYNER
Sir Henry Vernon served the office of High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1504; and he
probably passed the latter part of his life in retirement. He died April 3, 1515, and was
buried at Tong, where a fine monument was erected in memory of the Knight and his
lady; who having died on the 17th of May, 1494, had been interred in the same place.
Sir Henry Vernon married the Lady Ann Talbot, daughter of John, the second of his
name and family who bore the title of Earl of Shrewsbury; and who, as well as his more
celebrated father, distinguished himself in the wars in France, in the reign of Henry VI
[1422-1461]. Margaret, another daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury, relict of Thomas
Chaworth, married Ralph Vernon, the younger brother of her sister’s husband. Sir Henry
Vernon had by his lady, five sons, and one daughter. His eldest son, Sir Richard Vernon,
succeeded him at Haddon; Thomas, the second, was seated at Stokesay, and was living in
3rd and 4th Philip and Mary (1557); Humphrey, the third son, was seated at Hodnet, in
Staffordshire, and was the ancestor of the Vernons of that place, and of Houndhill, &c., in
the same county, whose heir male, by marriage with the heir general of Sudbury, and
partly by will of John Vernon, of the latter place, became possessed of that estate; the
fourth son, Sir John, married Ellen, daughter and heiress of Sir John Montgomery, in
Derbyshire; thus acquiring a considerable estate and influence in the county, for which he
appears to have been High Sheriff in 1523 and 1524; he was also Custos Rotulorum of
the county, and one of the King’s Council for Wales; he died, as likewise did his lady, in
1545, and they were buried at Clifton Camville, in Staffordshire; Arthur, the fifth son of
Sir Henry, was a priest, and rector of Whitchurch, in the county of Salop; he died August
15, 1517, and was interred with his parents at Tong; Elizabeth the only daughter of Sir
Henry and Lady Ann Vernon, married Robert Corbett, of Morton Corbett, in Shropshire;
and after his death she is said to have remained fifty years a widow; living to see two
hundred and thirty-three of her own descendants, and leaving behind her the character of
an amiable and virtuous lady.
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