Vernon, EDWARD, admiral, was born at Westminster in 1684, the son of a Whig statesman, who was secretary of state from 1697 to 1700. He entered the navy in 1701 and parliament in 1722; commanded at the storming of Portobelo (1739) and in the disastrous Cartagena expedition (1741); and died at Nacton, his Suffolk seat, 29th October 1757. See the Memorial by W. F. Vernon (1861).
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