Henry Verney, 18th Baron Willoughby de Broke

He was born Henry Barnard at Kineton, next to Compton Verney, Warwickshire, on 14 May 1844 and was baptised on 13 July 1844,[1] the son of Robert John Barnard (1809-1862) by his wife Georgina Jane Taylor, a daughter of Major-General Thomas Taylor of Ogwell House, West Ogwell in Devon, Lieutenant Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and a courtier to King William IV.

From 1876 he was a notable Master of Foxhounds of the Warwickshire Hunt (the kennels of which were at Kineton[2] adjoining Compton Verney), which office had also been exercised by his father between 1839 and 1856.

It was said "he was very popular with the farmers and in every respect a thoroughly capable master; he knew how to breed hounds and how to hunt them, and his word was law in the hunting-field.

By his wife he had five children: Lord Willoughby de Broke died on board the steamship Australia, and was buried at sea near Colombo on 19 December 1902.

[12] On his death, his title passed to his eldest son Richard Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke.