Robert Verney, 17th Baron Willoughby de Broke

Thomas Barnard, headmaster of Leeds Grammar School), Rector of Withersfield in Suffolk[2] and of Newmarket St Mary and Chaplain-in-Ordinary (or "Chaplain-in-Waiting"[3]) to King George III in 1762.

[6] Reverend Robert Barnard's mural monument survives in Lighthorn Church, also inscribed to his widow Hon.

1824, d.1889), a daughter of Maj-Gen Thomas William Taylor (1782-1854), CB, of Ogwell House, West Ogwell in Devon, an officer of the Honourable East India Company at Madras, and later Lt-Gov of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst[10] and a Groom of the Bedchamber to King William IV.

Their children included:[11][12] His sister-in-law Ann Frances Taylor married Sir Walter Palk Carew, 8th Baronet (1807–1874) of Haccombe in Devon.

[11] He died on 5 June 1862 and was buried in the Verney vault in Lighthorne Church, Warwickshire, established by the 14th Baron.