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Adm. pens. at TRINITY, Mar. 4, 1817. Did not reside. [19th child of Thomas Verney, surgeon, of Cambridge. B. there, Dec. 15 [or 25], 1797. Bapt. Jan. 26, 1798. School, Eton.] Adm. at King's, July 30, 1817. ' Matric. Michs. 1817; Browne medal, 1819, 1820; B.A. 1822; M.A. 1825; D.D. 1848. Fellow of King's, 1820-6; Provost, 1850-88. Vice-Chancellor, 1851-2. Assistant Master at Eton, 1821-38; Lower Master, 1838-48. Ord. deacon, 1822; priest, 1827. Supported and introduced considerable changes and reforms advocated by two University Commissions. Chairman of the Cambridge Waterworks Company, 1858-87. J.P. for the borough of Cambridge. Author of Musae Etonenses. Died at King's Lodge, Nov. 25, 1888; buried in the College Chapel. Brother of Francis (1805) and John (1826). (Eton Sch. Lists; King's Coll. Reg.; Crockford; D.N.B.; Saturday Review, LXVI. 647; J. W. Clark, Old Friends, 319-27.)