Richard Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke

Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke (29 March 1869 (London) – 16 December 1923) was a British peer and conservative politician.

The historian George Dangerfield described Verney as "a genial and sporting young peer, whose face bore a pleasing resemblance to the horse.

In the House of Lords, he and Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury led the "Die-Hards" or Ditchers in opposition to the Parliament Act 1911.

They colour for historians an otherwise empty abstraction, the deferential community, and divest it of unnecessarily scornful associations of the hubristic and menial kind.

"[4] M. K. Ashby wrote that "in the whole volume of The Passing Years there is not one metaphor which is not drawn from sport or game or weather or the table.

Lord Willoughby de Broke, about 1910
"An MFH with a sense of humour". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1905