Margaret Maria Verney (née Hay-Williams or Williams-Hay) (3 December 1844 – 7 October 1930),[1] was an English-born Welsh educationist.
[2] Verney was the daughter of Lady Sarah Elizabeth Amherst and her husband John Hay-Williams, 2nd Baronet Williams of Bodelwyddan.
On the death of her father in 1859, she inherited his house "Rhianfa", on Anglesey, which she retained as a family home.
[4] In 1894 she became a member of the Statutory Council of the University of Wales, holding the position until 1922.
In 1904 she produced an edition of the Memoirs of the Verney Family during the Seventeenth Century.