Word: verney
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...maintained perfect control over its majority in the Commons. And great was its encouragement when the returns from a by-election for the Buckrose division of Yorkshire, showed that Major A. N. Brathwaite (Conservative) had won, receiving 12,089 votes, as opposed to 10,537 cast for Sir Harry Verney (Liberal) and only 2,191 for H. C. Laycock (Laborite...
...biographical papers there are Captain A. T. Mahan's sketch of "Admiral the Earl of St. Vincent," and John Foster Kirk's "An English Family in the Seventeenth Century," - the family in question being the Verneys, and the papers being based on the memoirs of the Verney family during the English civil war. An interesting unsigned paper, also based on a volume of memoirs, is entitled "A Great Lady of the French Restoration," - Madame de Gontaut...