Major Sir Ralph Bruce Verney, 5th Baronet, KBE, DL (18 January 1915 – 17 August 2001) was a British Army officer, local politician and landowner, who served as Chairman of the Nature Conservancy Council from 1980 to 1983.
[4] After returning from the Far East, Verney began a major restoration project on his family seat, Claydon House, which had been occupied by schools during the war.
Verney's unpopularity among some in the landed element of the Conservative Party led to him not being reappointed by the government when his term expired in 1983.
He was a member of Buckinghamshire County Council and was closely involved both in the planning of the new town of Milton Keynes and the creation of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the Chilterns.
[7] He was High Steward of Buckingham in 1966, and was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974.