Rev
John
Richard
Vernon
Born in Louth, Lincolnshire, England
Ancestors 
Brother of
Henrietta Ann (Vernon) Travers, Eleonora Elizabeth (Vernon) Limpus and James Edmund Vernon MA
Husband of
Augusta Champneys (Bockett) Vernon
— married
30 Jul 1861 in Epsom, Surrey, England
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 69
in Williton, Somerset, England
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Aug 2019
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Biography
Clergyman, devotional author.
Education
He was educated at Hertford College, Oxford, he took Holy Orders (deacon 1860, priest 1861).
He served curacies at Sellindge, Kent (1860-64), Cheriton, Kent (1864-67), Newington, Kent (1867-69), Stogumber, Somerset (1869-71) and Streatham, south-west London (1871-74). He was rector of St Audries, West Quantoxhead, Somerset, from 1874 until his death.
Devotional author
Vernon published many books on devotional topics. Probably the best known was The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: leisure thoughts for busy lives (1867), which went through many editions, but he also wrote Christian Burials and other works.
Death
He died on 30 September 1902.
Sources
The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology © 2013 Canterbury Press [1]
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