Margaret Verney


Margaret Maria Verney , was an English-born Welsh educationist.
Verney was the daughter of Lady Sarah Elizabeth Amherst and her husband John Hay-Williams, 2nd Baronet Williams of Bodelwyddan. She married Sir Edmund Hope Verney, MP. 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. She also contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.