Background

Richard Verney was born in 1693, the second son of George Verney, 12th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1659–1728), and Margaret Heath, daughter of Sir Thomas Heath at the Verney family seat at Compton Verney House in Warwickshire He inherited the title 13th Baron Willoughby de Broke and 21st Baron Latimer on the death of his father in 1728, his elder brother Thomas having died in 1710.