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A fact from Francis Verney appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 March 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that English adventurer Sir Francis Verney spent two years in the Sicilian slave galleys before being rescued by an English Jesuit priest?

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Varney the Vampire connection[edit]

Is there any known connection between Sir Francis Verney and the 1840s penny dreadful Varney the Vampire, whose titular monster was named Sir Francis Varney?BrokenEye3 (talk) 07:14, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]