{{Short description|Irish Anglican bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=November 2020}} {{Portal|Christianity}} ''' James Verschoyle, ''' LL.D. (1747–1834) was an Irish Anglican bishop.<ref>"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</ref>
Educated at Trinity College, Dublin,<ref>"Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p838: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935</ref> he was successively Archdeacon of Glendalough,<ref>[https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2023822/gv4_nbl_lh_nbl_show5_php_id_051132.html Burke's Landed Gentry Of Ireland, 1912, Pg.732]</ref> Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and Bishop of Killala and Achonry.<ref name=HBOBC>{{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |pages=395–396}}</ref><ref name=fastihibvol4>{{cite book |last=Cotton |first=Henry |title=The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland |series= Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae |volume=4, The Province of Connaught |year=1850 |publisher=Hodges and Smith |location=Dublin |pages=67–78 }}</ref>
He died in April 1834.<ref>{{cite news | title=Death of the Bishop of Killala | newspaper=The Morning Chronicle | location=London, England | date=23 April 1834 | issue=20174}}</ref>
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{{S-start}} {{S-rel}} {{S-bef|before= John Gast}} {{S-ttl|title=Archdeacon of Glendalough|years=1788 – 1791}} {{S-aft|after=James Hastings}} {{S-bef|before= Robert Fowler}} {{S-ttl|title=Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin|years=1794– 1810}} {{S-aft|after=John Keatinge}} {{S-bef|before= Joseph Stock}} {{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Killala and Achonry|years=1810 – 1834}} {{S-aft|after=Power Le Poer Trench<br /><small>Archbishop of Tuam to which Killala & Achonry was united</small>}} {{End}}
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