# Verey

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This article is about the surname. For Very Lights (sometimes spelled Verey), named after Edward Wilson Very (1847–1910), see [Flare gun](/source/Flare_gun).

**Verey** is an [English](/source/English_language) surname. The *Internet surname database* suggests; "it is a variant of **Very**, which is of English origin and is a locational name of an unidentified place in northern France, named with the [Gaulish](/source/Gaulish) element "*ver*(n), alder, of the Gallo-Roman personal name "*verus*", true, and the local suffix - *acum*."

Development of the name since 1569 includes the following: William Very (1600, London), Robert (1613, Oxford) and Samuel Verry (1795, London). The modern surname can be found as Very, Verry, Verrey and Verey.[1]

Notable persons with the surname include:

- [Adolphus Verey](/source/Adolphus_Verey), (1862–1933) Australian photographer
- [David Verey](/source/David_Verey) (born 1950), English banker and philanthropist
- [Henry Verey](/source/Henry_Verey) (1836–1920), British barrister, Official Referee of the Supreme Court of Judicature
- [Michael Verey](/source/Michael_Verey) (1912–2000), British merchant banker and former chairman of Schroders
- [Roger Verey](/source/Roger_Verey) (1912–2000), Polish Olympic rower
- [Rosemary Verey](/source/Rosemary_Verey) (1918–2001), British garden designer, lecturer and writer

## References

1. ["Surname Database: Verey Last Name Origin"](http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Verey#ixzz3bATiRv67). Surnamedb.com. Retrieved 25 May 2015.

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