![]() Secretary of State īy the king Vernon was treated rather as a clerk than as a minister. At the 1698 English general election, he was returned as MP for Westminster. Though he did not formally succeed to Shrewsbury's department on his resignation, 12 December 1698, he was thenceforth virtually secretary for both departments until the delivery of the southern seals to the Earl of Jersey. The dexterity which he displayed in this affair, and Shrewsbury's virtual retirement, enhanced his consequence, and at Sunderland's suggestion he received the seals on the resignation of Sir William Trumbull, and was sworn of the privy council (5 December 1697). In support of the bill for Fenwick's attainder he made on 25 November 1696 the only important speech which he is recorded to have delivered throughout his parliamentary career. On him fell the main burden of investigating the assassination plot, and of hushing up the charges brought by Sir John Fenwick (1645–1697) against Godolphin, Shrewsbury, Marlborough, and Russell. Shrewsbury's ill-health, however, and the course of events soon thrust Vernon into prominence, and during the king's absences on the continent he acted as secretary to the lords justices. On Shrewsbury's return to power (March 1693–4) Vernon resumed in name his former relations with him. In 1693 he was appointed to a commissionership of prizes, which he held until 1705.Īt the 1695 English general election, Vernon was returned to parliament as MP for Penryn, Cornwall. On Shrewsbury's resignation, Vernon served in the same capacity Sir John Trenchard, by whom he was employed in Flanders in the summer of 1692 to furnish reports of the movements of the army to Sir William Dutton Colt, British minister at Celle. These duties he exchanged on the revolution for the post of private secretary to Lord Shrewsbury. ![]() He then entered the secretary of state's office as clerk and gazetteer, i.e. He was returned at the general election of March 1679 as Member of Parliament for Cambridge University. He is said to have removed the words 'natural son' from the patent conferring the command-in-chief upon the duke in 1674 but left his service in 1678. On his return he became secretary to the Duke of Monmouth. Vernon was employed by Sir Joseph Williamson to collect news in Holland in March 1672, and in the following June attended Lord Halifax on his mission to Louis XIV. In 1676 he was incorporated at St John's College, Cambridge. He married, by licence dated 6 April 1675, Mary Buck, daughter of Sir John Buck, 1st Baronet, of Hamby Grange, Lincolnshire. He graduated BA in 1666, and proceeded MA in 1669. Like his elder brother Francis, he was an alumnus of Charterhouse School, and matriculated at Christ Church on 19 July 1662, aged 16. Vernon was a younger son of Francis Vernon of London (a scion of the Vernons of Haslington, Cheshire, and Hanbury, Worcestershire), and his wife, Anne Welby, widow, daughter of George Smithes, a London goldsmith. He was Secretary of State for both the Northern and the Southern Departments during the reign of William III. James Vernon (1646–1727) was an English administrator and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 16.
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