Francis Vernon, 1st Earl of Shipbrook

[1][2] When the militia was reconstituted under threat of French invasion during the Seven Years' War, Vernon was appointed Colonel of the 2nd or East Suffolk Battalion on 27 April 1759.

In June 1762, under his personal command, the regiment attended a training camp at Sandheath, near Ripley.

[4] He was further honoured when he was made Viscount Orwell in 1776[5] and in 1777 Earl of Shipbrooke "of Newry in the County of Down",[6] also in the Irish peerage.

He married Alice, daughter of Samuel Ibbetson of Denton Hall, Wharfedale, Yorkshire.

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