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The Rt Rev Stephen Edmund Verney MBE (17 April 1919 – 9 November 2009) was the second Bishop of Repton from 1977 to 1985; and from then on an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Oxford. The son of Sir Harry Verney 4th Baronet he was born on 17 April 1919 and educated at Harrow and Balliol College Oxford. In 1947 he married Priscilla Schwerdt and in 1950 was ordained an Anglican Priest.