John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke
- John Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke
John Henry Peyto Verney, 20th Baron Willoughby de Broke, MC, AFC (21 May 1896 – 25 May 1986) was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He succeeded his father in 1923 and married Rachel Wrey in 1933.
During World War I, he won the Military Cross (1918). At the end of hostilities, he became aide-de-camp to the Governor of Bombay, Sir George Lloyd, from 1919 to 1922 and adjutant of the Warwickshire Yeomanry from 1925 to 1929. In 1939 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, a post he held until 1967.
During World War II, he was a staff officer of 11 Fighter Group (when he was mentioned in despatches) and then became Deputy Director of Public Relations at the Air Ministry (1941–44) and Director from 1945 to 1946.
Joint Master of the Warwickshire Hounds from 1929 to 1935 and chairman of the Wolverhampton Racecourse Company from 1947 to 1971, he was also President of the Hunters' Improvement Society for 1957–58.
References
* The Birmingham Post Year Book and Who's Who 1973-74, "Birmingham Post and Mail Ltd., July 1973"
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