Barbara Verschoyle

Barbara Fagan Verschoyle (died 25 January 1837), was a land agent and philanthropist in Dublin.

[1] The FitzWilliam estate at this time was undergoing significant development in the Merrion street and surrounding area.

Her husband was born in Donore, County Meath in 1751 to Joseph and Margaret (Mottley) Verschoyle.

[2][4] The couple had no children and Verschoyle remained working for the FitzWilliam estate until her husband's death in 1827.

Though Verschoyle had some ideas on how to adjust the leases to reduce periods when rent was almost impossible to collect, the rebellion and the Acts of Union 1800 made the situation even more difficult.

Verschoyle also oversaw the transformation of adjoining land into a girls school and she donated personal funds to assist in the running of it each year.

In 1816, FitzWilliam died and the estate passed to his heir, George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke.