Background
Vernon was born in Worcester Park, Surrey.
Vernon was born in Worcester Park, Surrey.
He was educated at Bishop"s Stortford College and the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied music and the piano, as a Sisselle Way Scholar.
He first worked as an Entomologist at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Pest infestation Headquarters at Tolworth, Surrey. He began broadcasting in "Lights of London" in 1971 and he has sung with the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and with most of the military and brass bands in Britain. He has sung in many full-length opera and operettas on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 and he has also performed on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2 in "Grand Hotel", "Ring Up the Curtain", "Among Your Souvenirs", "Your Hundred Best Tunes", "Baker"s Dozen", "Glamorous Nights", "Friday Night is Music Night", "Melodies for You" and "Walter Midgley Remembers".
Foreign some considerable time in the early 1960s he played the role of "Freddie" in the stage production of My Fair Lady at Drury Lane, when Sam Lewis was musical director
Sam (a viola player) subsequently went to Israel where he still lives, and he remembers Vernon as a real "gentleman". In the United States, he is perhaps best known as the singing voice of Josef Locke, who was played by Ned Beatty in the film Hear My Song.
He teaches voice at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.