Edward Wingfield Verner

Sir Edward Wingfield Verner, 4th Baronet (1 October 1830 – 21 June 1899)[1] was a Conservative Party politician in Ireland who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1863 to 1880.

[2] He married Selina Florence, daughter of Thomas Vesey Nugent, on 15 December 1864.

He contested a by-election in February of that year, and was narrowly defeated by the Liberal Party candidate, industrialist John Doherty Barbour.

[3] However, that result was overturned on petition and at a second by-election in June he won the seat by 151 votes to Barbour's 90.

He stood down at the 1880 general election, when his nephew William Edward was defeated by the Liberal candidate James Nicholson Richardson.