[3] Thereafter Verney worked for a Levant merchant, making expeditions to Mesopotamia and Cyprus.

[3] On 27 May 1680, he married Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of Ralph Palmer, at Westminster Abbey[4] After her death in 1686, Verney married a second time to Mary Lawley, daughter of Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Baronet, on 10 July 1692, also at Westminster Abbey.

[5] Both titles were in the Peerage of Ireland and hence didn't prevent him being returned as member of parliament for Buckinghamshire at the 1710 general election.

[3] At the 1715 general election he was returned unopposed instead as MP for Amersham on the Drake interest and represented it until his death in 1717.

[6] The Viscount Fermanagh died aged 76 and was buried in Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire a week later.