James Verschoyle

James Verschoyle, LL.D. (1747-1834) was an Irish Anglican bishop.[1]

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin,[2] he was successively Archdeacon of Glendalough,[3] Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and Bishop of Killala and Achonry.[4][5]

He died in April 1834.[6]

References

1. "History of the Church of Ireland: From the revolution to the union of the Churches of England and Ireland, January 1, 1801; with a catalogue of the Archbishops and Bishops, continued to November, 1840; and a notice of the alterations made in the hierarchy by the act of 3 and 4 William IV" Mant, R. p790: London; John W. Parker; 1840
2. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p838: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
3. Burke's Landed Gentry Of Ireland, 1912, Pg.732
4. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 395–396. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
5. Cotton, Henry (1850). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 4, The Province of Connaught. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 67–78.
6. "Death of the Bishop of Killala" The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Wednesday, April 23, 1834; Issue 20174

Religious titles
Preceded by John Gast	Archdeacon of Glendalough 1788 – 1791	Succeeded by James Hastings
Preceded by Robert Fowler	Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1794– 1810	Succeeded by John Keatinge
Preceded by Joseph Stock	Bishop of Killala and Achonry 1810 – 1834	Succeeded by Power Le Poer Trench Archbishop of Tuam to which Killala & Achonry was united