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| image = Colonel William Willoughby Verner, Sanger Shepherd process, by Sarah Acland 1903.png
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1852|10|22}}
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| death_place = [[Algeciras]]
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| known_for = Author,
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Colonel '''William Willoughby Cole Verner''' (22 October
==Life==
Verner was born in 1852 and he showed an early interest in bones
[[File:Elliot arm buckle (650 x 733).jpg|thumb|upright|An Elliot Bros London First World War British Army military sketching board says "Major Verners Patent". It is 24 cm high and 17.5
He took out patents to improve a [[Military Sketching Board|cavalry sketch board]] which was designed to be used strapped to the wrist.<ref name=brink>{{cite web|last=Brink|first=Ted|title=British Army military sketching board with compass|url=http://tedbrink1.webs.com/gbdirectionboard.htm|publisher=Collecting Military Compasses|accessdate=11 May 2013}}</ref><ref name=iwm>{{cite web|title=cavalry sketch board Mk IV|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30013774|publisher=Imperial War Museum|accessdate=11 May 2013}}</ref> In 1895 Verner had a novel version of a prismatic [[compass]] named after him with a luminous dial. The compass was manufactured by two different companies and version nine of the design was still being made in 1942.<ref>[http://www.compasscollector.com/article_page_5.htm Verners Pattern Prismatic Compasses], compasscollector.com, accessed January 2013</ref>
[[File:Verner compass model VIII.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Verner's Pattern no VIII by a Swiss Clockmaker, Ed Koehn, dated 1916]]
Verner became the official historian of the [[Rifle
He also wrote ''The Military Life of H. R. H. George: Duke of Cambridge'' based on [[Prince George, Duke of Cambridge]].
He wrote ''Sketches in the Soudan (sic)'' in 1885 and ''Rapid Field-Sketching and Reconnaissance'' and ''Advanced Guard and Outpost Duties for Riflemen'' in 1889. ''The First British Rifle Corps''. He wrote ''An historical account of the Rifle Brigade and of the King's Royal Rifle Corps'' in 1890 and ''Some Notes on Military Topography'' in 1891 and ''Map Reading and the Elements of Field Sketching'' in 1893. In 1894 his friend (Leonard) [[Howard Irby]] published ''The Ornithology of the Strait of Gibraltar'' and after he retired to [[Algeciras]] he wrote ''My Life among the Wild Birds in Spain. With illustrations'' in 1909.<ref name="amaz">[
[[File:My_life_among_the_wild_birds_in_Spain_(1909)_(14748740684).jpg|thumb|left|Verner climbing down to a bird's nest on a cliff ledge]]
In 1911, Verner discovered [[Cueva de la Pileta]] in [[Benaoján]] and with [[Henri Breuil|Abbe Breuil]] also discovered [[Devil's Tower Cave]] in [[Gibraltar]].<ref name="devils cave">[http://underground-gibraltar.com/#/devils-tower-cave/4572552144 Devils Tower Cave], http://underground-gibraltar.com, accessed 22 February 2013</ref>
Verner wrote ''History and Campaigns of the Rifle Brigade'' in 1912.<ref name="amaz"/> In 1917 Breuil returned and he and Verner were warned off their next investigation of Devil's Tower Cave in Gibraltar by a local policeman (but not before they had retrieved some Neanderthal tools). Their final visit to the cave was in 1919 and they were convinced that this was [[Neanderthals of Gibraltar|another home to early man]] like the earlier finds at ''Cuerva de la Pieta'' and at [[Forbes' Quarry|Forbes' Quarry Cave]], [[Gibraltar 1]] had been found over fifty years earlier. Their confidence was confirmed when [[Gibraltar 2]] was found nearby in the early 1920s<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Garrod, D. A. E., Buxton, L. H. D., Elliot-Smith, G., Bate, D.M. A. |year=1928 |title=Excavation of a Mousterian rock-shelter at [[Devil's Tower, Gibraltar]] |journal=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute |volume=58 |pages=33–113 | jstor=4619528}}</ref> by [[Dorothy Garrod]] who had come to investigate at Breuil's encouragement.
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