George John Warren Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon

Politician and literary editor.

No known connections with slavery.

History of Parliament notes that ‘Having averred that he was for abolishing colonial slavery … he was returned [as MP for Derbyshire] unopposed’ and that ‘Venables Vernon presented the Chesterfield petition for its own enfranchisement, 25 June, and pressed for legislation to ameliorate the condition of slaves in the West Indies, 27 June 1831’. (Simon Harratt / Stephen Farrell, ‘VENABLES VERNON, George John (1803-1866), of Sudbury Hall, Derbys. and 25 Wilton Crescent, Mdx.’, in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History [online], London, 1964 -, 1820-1832,<http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1820-1832/member/venables-vernon-george-1803-1866> accessed 5 August 2021.)

Donor: presented in 1839: NG167 (now at British Museum, 1994,0514.49) and NG172.

S. Harratt and S. Farrell, 'VENABLES VERNON, George John (1803-1866), of Sudbury Hall, Derbys. and 25 Wilton Crescent, Mdx', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1820-1832, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/venables-vernon-george-1803-1866
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H. R. Tedder and A. Milbank, 'Warren [formerly Venables-Vernon], George John, fifth Baron Vernon', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28242
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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