Moira Verschoyle Explained

Moira Verschoyle
Birth Name:Moira Hamilton Verschoyle
Birth Date:17 December 1903
Birth Place:Limerick
Death Date:13 January 1985[1]
Death Place:Rye, East Sussex, England
Nationality:Irish

Moira Hamilton Verschoyle (17 December 1903 – 13 January 1985) was an Irish novelist and playwright.[2] [3] [4]

Life and career

Verschoyle was born in Limerick and raised in Castle Troy on the banks of the River Shannon, where she was privately educated by governesses. She was born into the Verschoyle family, a prominent landed family of Dutch descent, the daughter of Captain Frederick Thomas Verschoyle, who had been a 2nd Brig. South Irish Div. R.A. and was now a Land Agent, and his wife Hilda Caroline Hildyard Blair, of royal Plantagenet descent. Her grandfather was Hamilton Verschoyle. Verschoyle had an older brother Frederick and an older sister Hilda.[2] Verschoyle worked on the London stage during and after the Second world war.[5] [6] [7]

Verschoyle married Horace de Heriz Smith (later Heriz-Smith) of Bordighera, Italy, in Penang on 3 April 1922.[8] [9] He was an experienced planter in Malaya and they divorced. She returned to the UK within a few years and he later remarried.[10]

While based in Sussex Verscholye married the writer Reginald Warren Chetham-Strode on 16 July 1927 with whom she had one son, who died young.[11] Along with the novels and autobiography she produced and the work in theatre, Verschoyle also wrote articles for newspapers.[12] She died in January 1985 in Hastings.[13]

Bibliography

Further reading

Web site: A LIMERICK CHILDHOOD . Limerick city . November 30, 2016.

Notes and References

  1. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
  2. Book: Burke's Irish Family Records. Burke's Peerage & Gentry . Burke, Sir Bernard . Bernard Burke . 5th . 1906 . 1165–1166 . Burke . Burke's Peerage .
  3. Web site: Moira Verschoyle . Ricorso . November 30, 2016.
  4. Web site: Birth record . Https . November 30, 2016.
  5. Book: J. P. Wearing. The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel . 222. 22 August 2014. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 978-0-8108-9306-1.
  6. Book: Jeffrey E. Long. Remembered Childhoods: A Guide to Autobiography and Memoirs of Childhood and Youth. registration. 2007. Libraries Unlimited. 978-1-59158-174-1. 76–.
  7. Book: The Marquis of Ruvigny and Ranieval . The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume . 156. 1 May 2013. Heritage Books. 978-0-7884-1872-3.
  8. Web site: Newspaper Article - WEDDINGS AT PENANG. . The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser . 4 April 1922 . November 30, 2016.
  9. Web site: Newspaper Article. The Straits Times, 4 April 1922, Page 8 . November 30, 2016.
  10. Web site: Ship Kuala Passenger List . November 30, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161120011337/http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/ships_kuala_passenger_list.pdf . 20 November 2016 . dead .
  11. Book: Burke's Landed Gentry Of Ireland. 1976. 1166.
  12. Book: Michael Pierse. Writing Ireland's Working Class: Dublin After O'Casey. 14 December 2010. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-0-230-31840-3. 357–.
  13. Web site: Clifton RFC History - WW1 - Warren Chetham-Strode . November 30, 2016.

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