(d. 1831) of Stoke, Northants, and Aldborough, Suff., 3rd s. of Henry Vernon of Hilton Park, Staffs; unm.
1779 - 80 Florence (by May - 10 Nov. 1779 - ), Rome ( - by 8 Jan. 1780), Naples (mid-Jan.), Rome (by 29 Apr.), Venice (3 Jul.), Turin (by 15 Oct.)
1797 Rome and Naples (Apr. - Dec.)
In May 1779 Swinburne met 'Vernon' at Horace Mann's house in Florence.1 Vernon was still in Florence in November, when Lord Herbert (later 11th Earl of Pembroke) accompanied him, 'seemingly a good kind of young man', to the Teatro Nuovo on the 7th and to Lord Cowper's on the 10th.2 By 8 January 1780 Vernon had left Rome for Naples with Edward Pratt,3 but he had returned by 29 April.4 On 3 July 1780 Vernon arrived in Venice with a Mr Cort.5 In June his mother, Lady Harriott Vernon, had sent to John Strange, the British resident at Venice, a letter of credit for her son,6 who was presumably also the Vernon presented at court at Turin on 15 October.7
His second visit to Italy was made to deal with the burial of his sister Anna, Lady Berwick, who had died in Manfredonia in March 1797. He spent several weeks in Rome,8 and with his brother-in-law, Thomas, 2nd Baron Berwick, he was corresponding with Sir William Hamilton in Naples between April and September 1797 concerning the burial of the corpse in the convent of the Cappuccini in Manfredonia.9 He was returning home through Germany by December.8
1. Swinburne, Courts, 1:249. 2. Pembroke Papers, 1:313, 315. 3. Ibid., 384. 4. Bankes MSS (29 Apr. 1780). 5. ASV is 760. 6. Eg.1970, f.41. 7. AST cf. 8. Attingham MSS (C. Knight, 16 Dec. 1797). 9. ASN E 674.