Sir Ralph Verney

✓ SIR RALPH VERNEY, citizen and Mercer, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON 1465-6; named with wife Emma as Margaret's parents in the 1509 Raleigh will (primary). Ancestry not pursued - London merchant line, END OF LINE as entered. Direct ancestor. Added 8 Aug 2026 (the Raleigh royal door - consolation wave after the St Leger door closed; full write-up in RANKED LEADS addendum). ||UPGRADED 9 Aug 2026 (Verney Papers)|| Sir Ralph Verney, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON 1465 (d.1478), buried in St Martin Pomeroy in Ironmonger Lane 'in the toumbe standing vnder the sepulcre betwene the quere and our Lady Chapelle'; his will (printed in full, Camden Soc.) names wife Emme, sons John and Ralph, daughters Margaret Raleghe and Beatrice Danvers. His son John m. Margaret Whittingham (the connexion that 'involved him in a world of trouble') - the Pendley line, collateral to us.