T.C.D. (1918); Select Preacher at Oxford (1921-2). Pubns.: Commentaries on Ecclesiastics; Exodus; Numbers: St. Matthew; Deuteronomy; 16 place in Revelation; The Old Testament in the Christian Church; St. Paul, his Life, Letters and Christian Doctrine; Self-training in Prayer; After this manner pray ye; Self-training in Meditation; Discipleship; The Increase of God; He led Captivity Captive. General Editor: R.V. for Schools. Contributor: Cambridge Biblical Essays; Peatre's Commentary. Recns.: golfing, lawn tennis, chess; b. 6th March. 1871; elder son of Daniel James McNeile, B.C.S. Res.: Trinity College, and 26 Elgin Road, Dublin.
McNEILL, John (Eoin), B.A. (R.U.I.), D.Litt. (N.U.I.), M.R.I.A. Educ. at St. Malachy's College, Belfast; entered Civil Service, 1888; was in the Accountant-General's Office, Law Courts, Dublin, for 20 years; was the originator of the Gaelic League and has been its Vice-President and President; formerly Editor of Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, and later of An Claidheamh Soluis; co-editor of Eachtra Lomnochtain (an Ossianic tale from MS.): began study of Old and Middle Irish, 1890; Prof, of Early and Medieval Irish History at University College, Dublin, from 1909: is Lecturer on Irish Archæology at Maynooth; on Governing Body of University College, Dublin, 1908; Senator of the National University; Member of the original Provisional Committee which organised the Irish National Volunteers; elected M.P. (Sinn Fein) for Londonderry City and for the National University, 1919; Speaker of Dail Eireann, 1921-2; Minister of Education, 1922. Author of Duanaire Fhinn and editor and annotator of numerous Irish Texts; b. at Glenarm, Co. Antrim, 1868. Res.: 3 Southhill Avenue, Booterstown, Co. Dublin.
MACNEILL, John Gordon Swift, M.A. (T.C.D.), M.A. (Oxon), Barrister King's Inns, 1876; Q.C., 1893; Professor of Constitutional Law and of the Law of Public and Private Wrongs from 1909; Clerk of Convocation from 1910, and Dean of Faculty of Law, National Univ. of Ireland, from 1912; K.C. Educ: Trinity College, Dublin (Three First Honours Classics); Christ Church, Oxford (Classical Exhibition); 2nd Class Classical Mods., 1870; 2nd Class Final School Law and Modern History, 1872; First Place and First Exhibition at Final Examination for call to Irish Bar, 1875; Auditor of Irish Law Students' Debating Society, 1875; Professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law, King's Inns, Dublin, 1882-1888; was severely criticised and caricatured for protesting in the House of Commons against the cession of Heligoland to Germany, 1890; Proposed motion disallowing votes of Directors of Mombasa Railway which resulted in defeat of Unionist Government, 1892; was commended by Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, as Premier, in the House of Commons for his success in procuring, after years of agitation, the abolition of flogging in the Royal Navy, 1906; by repeated motions in the House of Commons established the principle that the position of Minister of the Crown is incompatible with the holding of directorships in Public Companies; proposed motion with reference to the conduct of the trial of the Great Yarmouth Election Petition, 1906: one of the seven members of the House of Commons who constitute the Committee of Privileges, 1908; by persistent questions to Ministers in the House of Commons from November, 1914, pressed the Government to introduce the legislation embodied in The Titles Depreciation Act, 1917; was M.P. for S. Donegal, 1887-1918. Pubns. The Irish Parliament, what it was and what it did, 1885; English Interference with Irish Industries, 1886: How the Union was carried, 1887; Titled Corruption, 1894; The Constitutional and Parliamentary History of Ireland, 1917. Recns.: pedestrianism, pet dogs, travel, original research, visits to places of archaeological, historic, or architectural interest; collections of old plate, china, and historic relics; only son of Rev. John Gordon Swift MacNeill, M.A., and Susan Colpoys, dau. of Rev. Henry Tweedy M.A.; b. 1849. Res.: 17 Pembroke Road. Dublin. Club: National Liberal.
M'NEILL, Ronald (M.P., St. Augustine Division of Kent, 1911-18, and for Canterbury Division since 1918); M.A. (Oxon); Barrister Lincoln's Inns, 1887. Educ.: Harrow, Christ Church, Oxford. Assistant Editor St. James's Gazette, 1899; Editor, 1900-4; contested (U.) West Aberdeenshire, 1906; South Aberdeen (city), 1907 and 1910; Kirkcudbrightshire, Dec, 1910; Assistant Editor of the 11th ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1906-11. Pubns.: Home Rule: its History and Danger, 1907: Socialism (in The New Order), 1908; History of Australia and New Zealand in Historian's History of the World, 1908; contributions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, 1911; duly and weekly press and monthly magazines. Recns.: was in Harrow cricket eleven and Christ Church cricket and football (Association) elevens; shooting, fishing, lawn tennis, croquet; only surviving son of late Edmund McNeill, D.L., J.P., of Craigdunn, Co. Antrim; b. 1861; m. 1884. Elizabeth Maud, fifth dau. of William Bolitho, of Polwithen, Penzance. Res.: 18 Cadogan Place, London, S.W.1.; Cushendun, Co. Antrim. Clubs: Carlton, Bath, M.C.C.
McNICHOLAS, Right Rev. John T., Bishop; b. Kiltimagh, Ireland, Dec. 15th, 1877; son of Patrick J. and Mary (Mullany) McN.; brought to U.S., 1881; Ed. St. Joseph's College (Phila.), St. Rose College (Springfield, Ky)., St. Joseph's College
