The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-02-15 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DEATH 01 SIR HARRY VERNEY.  Sir Harry Verne) died at his residence, Claydon hotte, Burke, on Monday morning an o'clock.  Sir starry Verney was born on December Bth, 1801, and was educated at Harrow and Downii g College, Cambridge. He afterwards went to tte Military College at Sandhurst, and in 1819 joined the 7th Royal Fusiliers, and he subsequently served in the Grenadier Guards. In 1826 he was appointed private secretary in the Duke ef Wellington's office, but in that year he succeeded his father, Sir Henry Calvert, G.C.8., G.C.IL, as recrand baronet, and retired from the service the following year, having attained the rank of major. He was then for some time in the diplomatic service, being attaché at the legations at Wurtem. berg and Baden. In 1827 be assumed by Royal licerce the name of Verney, on succeeding to the , estates of the Countess of Pemoanagh. From 183241 he repreeented Buckingham in Parliament, and from 1847-52 he sat for Bedford. In 1857 he &eau sat for Buckingham in the Liberal interest, and retained his seat till 1874. He resumed the representation of Buckingham in 1880, and finally retired from Parliament in 1885,when he was made • Privy Councillor. He was a D.L. and J.P. for Bucks, deputy chairman of the Buckinghamshire Railway Company and of the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway, and was formerly in the Bucks militia. He married Ant in 1835 Eliza, daughter of Admiral Sir George Hope, R.C.8., who died in 1857, and secondly, in the following year,Fratices Parthenope, daughter of the late Mr. William Edmund Nightingale, who died in 1890. Sir Harry Verney 'hare& with the late Lord Addington and Lord Cottesloe, who were near neighbours, the distinction of being the three great old men of Buckinghamshire. He was one of Mr. Gladstone's oldest friends, and every year till quite lately thefulways dined with one another at stated intervals. Sir Harry Verney's Saturday to Monday parties were quite institutions, the great Lord Shaftesbury, Mr. W. E. Forster, and most prominent public men sharing his hospitality. He was a model landlord. The tenants and poor idolised him. The co,taxes on lois estate were comfortable, well ventilated, well drained, and had ample acccmmodation for a labourer and his family. Sir Harry was a member of and a frequent speaker at the London and Oxford Diocesan Conferences. Owing to his having married a sister of Miss Florence Nightingale, who was • constant visitor at Claydon, he took great interest in the new system of nursiug, and nurses from the London hospitals were often most hospitably entertained by the deceased. There were few philanthropic and social movements in which be was not more or less personally toncerned. He was a capital rider, a keen agriculturist, and a sober-minded Liberal politician. Nothing, (says the If estatiluter Gazette) probably gave him greater pain than when he had to Separate himself from his lifelong friend, Mr. Gladstone, and throw in his lot with the Unionists, but he held very decided iriews against Home Rule. Sir Harry took a great interest in the development of railways in his county, and it was largely owing to him that the new line to Aylesbury from Baker-street was made. He was present and spoke at the inaugural dinner at Aylesbury on the day of the opening, and during the bat year be has taken part in several county gatherings. Toth. last he was delighted to see his hounds meet. In fact, Sir Harry Was a good all-round man. Having had military, diplomatic, and Parliamentary experience, besides being the very idata-idial of an English country gentleman, few men were more popular or respected in the House, and Mr. Disraeli, no mean judge of men, had the highest opinion of his capacity.  A destructive fire has occurred at Hartford, Connecticut, the buildings involved being the menufactory of Mesas. Colt, the well-known manufacturers of revolvers and of firearms generally. Great dateage bss been done to premises and machinery, the loss being estimated at a quarter of a million dollars.  The Mat ot a series of volumes dealing with the dives of "Men of Achievement" will be punished immediately by Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. It treats of "Men of Business," and will contain sketched, of the lives of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Cyrus Meld, John Jacob Astor, Chauncey Depew, George Pullman, Levi Morton, and many other successful men of business in America. The volume bas been written by William 0. Stoddard, and will be accompanied with portraits and other illustrations. "Explorers and Travellers," by General A. W. Greely ; "statesmen," by Noah Brooks; and "Inventors," by Philip C. Hubert,jun., are volumes to follow in this series. A proposal is before the London County Council Ito provide six Are del**, 28 sub.etatlone, ko.. at la cost of £e2,570, an Involving an annual expos' ditem• of 221,300. Me. Eckhart W. Wavab, • leading tradesman of and former member of the town coneell, Was found to have committed suicide on Monday by hanging himself. No cause is assigned for the rash act. Scam hundreds of tons of chalk fell on Saturday from the digs between DOWN and the South Foretbsliaidt Zdgtabe **M oves. !allOtt Wnalialbeisilt_tr elf  r''l77l7l'