David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke

Leopold David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke, DL, FRSA, FRGS (born 14 September 1938), is a British hereditary peer and former member of the House of Lords.

[3] He inherited his father's title in 1986 and was one of the 90 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999; originally elected a Conservative peer, he defected to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in January 2007,[4] making him one of only four UKIP members at Westminster.

[8] Since 2002 he has been a governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and also since 2002 the president of the Warwickshire branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

On 19 November 2009, Willoughby de Broke introduced the Constitutional Reform Bill 2009-10 into the House of Lords, with clauses to repeal the European Communities Act 1972 and the Human Rights Act 1998, to reduce the powers of the House of Commons and government, to reduce MPs' pay, and to give more power to local authorities.

The heir apparent to the title is his elder son, the Hon Rupert Greville Verney (born 1966).