Horace aka Horatio Vere (1565 – 2 May 1635) was the 4th son of Geoffrey Vere and Elizabeth Hardekyn.[1]
He married in October 1607, Mary Tracy (1581-1671), daughter of Sir John Tracy (d.1591) of Tuddington, Gloucestershire, and widow of William Hoby. They had issue:
Elizabeth Vere, who married John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare, grandfather of the first Duke of Newcastle
Mary Vere, who married, first, Sir Roger Townshend, Baronet, of Raynham in Norfolk, whence are descended the Marquises of Townshend, and secondly, Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
Catherine Vere, who married, first, Oliver St John (1612/1613–November 1641 or 1642, son of Sir John St John, 1st Baronet, and Anne Leighton) and had Sir John St John, 2nd Baronet in 1648 (died 1657), and, secondly, John Poulett, 2nd Baron Poulett
Anne Vere, who married Sir Thomas Fairfax (afterwards 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron)
Dorothy Vere, who married John Wolstenholme, eldest son of Sir John Wolstenholme, bart., of Nostell, Yorkshire.[2]
Susana Vere (1619–1623) Died at a young age.
In the summer of 1625 he was created Baron Vere of Tilbury, which went extinct on his death.
Research Notes
Horatio was born in 1565 in Colne Essex. [2]. Lord Horatio died in Whitehall, Westminster, London on 2 May 1635,[2] and buried 8 May 1635, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London.[2]
↑Burke, John Bernard, "A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Irelan, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance", London: Henry Colburn and richard Bentley,1831, Archive.org,
p. 540
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