Arthur Verney (1943-2013) was a British Deaf and disability rights campaigner and activist.
[1] After attending Moseley Grammar school, Verney trained as a Deaf Welfare officer.
[1] In 1980, Verney became general secretary of the British Deaf Association (BDA).
Verney was responsible for transforming it into an organisation led by Deaf people and for the campaigning arm of the association.
[5] Among his achievements, he organised a Disabled People's parliament (December 1993), where 440 disabled people took the place of the MEPs and reported to the European Commission in first person, and he ran workshops across Europe on human rights, bioethics, independent living and accessibility.