Frances Margaret Venables-Vernon, Baroness Vernon (née Lawrance; 11 July 1861 – 23 June 1940) was an American heiress who married into the British aristocracy.

[10] He was the son and heir of Augustus Venables-Vernon, 6th Baron Vernon, and his wife Lady Harriet Frances Maria Anson (a daughter of Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield).

Lord Vernon had succeeded his father in the barony in 1883, when he inherited around 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of land in Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

[1] Together, they were the parents of:[11] Lord Vernon died in December 1898, aged 44,[15] and was succeeded in the barony by their eldest son, George.

Lady Vernon, was declared incompetent in 1910 and spent the rest of her life living in Pau, France,[9] where she died on 23 June 1940.