Vernon family
[2] Warine Vernon, elder son of the 4th Baron, had no male heir and his extensive estate was divided between his daughters and his brother Ralph, Rector of Hanwell.
His heir was Sir Richard, son of his second marriage to Matilda Grosvenor of Kinderton, Cheshire.
The Shipbrook Barony expired when his grandson Sir Richard, was captured after the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 and executed for treason.
[2] Other branches of the family flourished, and its influence spread beyond Cheshire over the following centuries, partly as a result of judicious intermarriage.
A subsequent descendant, also Richard, married Juliana, daughter of Sir Fulk de Pembrugge, the heiress of Tong Castle, in the mid-1300s.
[5] Benedicta's mother, Lady Isabella Pembrugge (née Lingen) founded the chantry and college at Tong, Shropshire in memory of her three departed husbands.
Benedicta de Ludlow, as well as the Lingen and Pembrugge Arms, are depicted in the chapel's stained glass window at Haddon Hall.
[5] His son Sir William[5] was Knight-Constable of England and succeeded him as Treasurer of Calais and MP for Derbyshire and Staffordshire, while other descendants became the Vernons of Hodnet.
[17] Their only surviving son George (1709–1780),[18] Member of Parliament for Lichfield and Derby, changed his surname in 1728 to Venables-Vernon and was created the first Baron Vernon of Kinderton in 1762.
[15] His eldest son Henry (1663–1732) largely rebuilt the moated Hilton Hall in the 1720s; he married (1717) Penelope Phillips (d.1727).
Their eldest son, another Henry (1718–1763), married Henrietta Wentworth (1720–1786), youngest daughter of the earl of Strafford; she was a lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess Amelia, sister of King George III.
Their eldest son Henry Vernon (1748–1814) of Hilton was a page at the Coronation of George III.
Their eldest son, Major-General Henry Charles Edward, substantially extended Hilton Hall in the 1830s.
His grandson, Chancery lawyer Thomas Vernon, built Hanbury Hall in grand style about 1710.
