Sir Edmund Hope Verney, 3rd Baronet FRGS, DL, JP (6 April 1838 – 8 May 1910)[1] was a British naval officer, author and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1891.
[6] Verney was on board HMS Growler from 1870 and in 1875 he was attached to Her Majesty's Coastguard, division Liverpool until 1877, when he was promoted to captain.
[7] He entered the House of Commons in 1885, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham until the following year.
[11] He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for Anglesey and Buckinghamshire.
[6] In June 1858, Verney's father married Frances Parthenope Nightingale after the death of his first wife.