John Verney (judge)
[3] At the 1722 British general election he was returned as Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Downton with the help of his brother-in-law, Anthony Duncombe.He spoke on 22 January 1724 against the Government of the Whig Prime Minister Robert Walpole on a motion for maintaining the existing strength of the army.He was returned as MP after the consequential by-election, and a few days he spoke for the Government on an opposition motion about sending a fleet to the Baltic.On 8 February 1733 he opposed the receipt of a petition from the York Buildings Society stating that ‘the law would redress any abuses of this nature’, but the House did not take his advice.After a few years, his ill-health made it impossible to continue as Master of the Rolls, and he offered his resignation to the Lord Chancellor in early 1741.