Moira Verschoyle

Moira Verschoyle
Born	Moira Verschoyle 17 December 1903 Limerick
Died	January 1985 Hastings, United Kingdom
Nationality	Irish

Moira Hamilton Verschoyle (17 December 1903-January 1985) was an Irish novelist and playwright.

Born in Limerick and raised in Castle Troy on the banks of the River Shannon, Verschoyle was privately educated by governesses. She was a 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 who was part of the Plantagenet Roll of Blood Royal. Verschoyle had an older brother Frederick and an older sister Hilda. Verschoyle worked on the London stage during and after the Second world war.

Verschoyle married Mr. Horace de Herziz Smith of Bordighera, Italy, in Penang on 3 April 1922. He was an experienced planter in Malaya. As a result, she was listed as Moira Hamilton Smith for her second marriage. She returned to the UK within a few years and he later remarried.

While based in Sussex Verscholye married the writer Reginald Warren Chetham-Strode on 16 July 1927 with whom she had 5 children, 4 girls and a boy. Along with the novels and autobiography she produced and the work in theatre, Verschoyle also wrote articles for newspapers. She died in January 1985 in Hastings.

"A LIMERICK CHILDHOOD" (PDF). Limerick city. 

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