Harry Lloyd-Verney

Sir Harry Lloyd Verney GCVO (23 January 1872 – 28 February 1950) was a British courtier who served in successive Royal Households of the United Kingdom.

Verney was the second, but eldest surviving, son and heir of Col. George Hope Lloyd (who assumed the additional surname of Lloyd in 1888) of The Cedars, Esher and Harriet Julia Morforwyn Hinde. His father wrote the booklet Four-Handed Chess which was published in 1881.

His father was the third son of Maj. Rt.-Hon. Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet (who married twice, first to Eliza Hope, daughter of Adm. Sir George Johnstone Hope, and secondly Frances Parthenope Nightingale, daughter of William Edward Nightingale and sister of Florence Nightingale). Among his extended family were uncles Sir Edmund Hope Verney, 3rd Baronet, Frederick William Verney, a diplomat and politician who was the father of his first cousin, Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet.His maternal grandfather was Maj.-Gen. Charles Thomas Edward Hinde.

He was educated at Eton College.

He held the office of Gentleman Usher and Deputy Master of the Household to Edward VII between 1907 and 1910, and in 1909 was invested as a Member of the Royal Victorian Order. Between 1911 and 1931 he was Groom in Waiting to George V, and also served as Private Secretary to Queen Mary from 1919 to 1935. He was also Queen Mary's Treasurer from 1932 to 1935. Verney served as Extra Groom in Waiting to the Prince of Wales between 1931 and 1936, when he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. He was an Extra Groom in Waiting to George VI from 1937 to his death in 1950.

He was also an Officer of the Legion of Honour.

He married Lady Joan Elizabeth Mary Cuffe (1877–1951), daughter of Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart and Lady Margaret Joan Lascelles (a daughter of Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood), on 6 June 1889. Together they lived at of The Clochfaen in Llanidloes and were the parents of four children, including Major-General Gerald Lloyd-Verney.

Verney died on 28 February 1950. His widow died 27 February 1951.