Hugh Boyd M‘Neile
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The Very Reverend Hugh M‘Neile |
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| Dean of Ripon | |
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| Church | Church of England |
| Province | York |
| Diocese | Ripon |
| Installed | 29 October 1868 |
| Term ended | 31 October 1875 |
| Predecessor | William Goode |
| Successor | Sydney Turner |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1820 by William Magee |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Hugh Boyd M‘Neile |
| Born |
17 July 1795 Ballycastle, County Antrim |
| Died | 28 January 1879 (aged 83) Bournemouth |
| Buried | Bournemouth New Cemetery |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Parents | Alexander M‘Neile (1762-1838) and Mary M‘Neile (née McNeale) |
| Spouse | Anne Magee (1803-1881) |
| Children | 16 |
| Occupation | Anglican cleric |
| Alma mater | University of Dublin |
Hugh Boyd M‘Neile (18 July 1795 – 28 January 1879) was a well-connected and controversial Irish-born Calvinist Anglican of Scottish descent.
Fiercely anti-Tractarian and anti-Roman Catholic (and, even more so, anti-Anglo-Catholic) and an Evangelical and millenarian cleric, who was also a devoted advocate of the year-for-a-day principle, M‘Neile was the perpetual curate of St Jude’s Liverpool (1834-1848), the perpetual curate of St Paul’s Princes Park (1848-1867), an honorary canon of Chester Cathedral (1845-1868) and the Dean of Ripon (1868-1875).
He was a member of the Protestant Association (in its 19th-century incarnation),the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, the Irish Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the Church Association.
M‘Neile was an influential, well-connected demagogue, a renowned public speaker, an evangelical cleric and a relentless opponent of “Popery”, who was permanently inflamed by the ever-increasing number of Irish Roman Catholics in Liverpool. He was infamous for his stirring oratory, his immoderate preaching, his prolific publications, and his inability to accurately construe the meaning of the scripture upon which his diatribes were based (see below). He was just as deeply loved, admired and respected by some, as he was an object of derision and scorn for others.
Hugh Boyd M‘Neile, the younger son of Alexander M'Neile (1762-1838) and Mary M'Neile, née McNeale (?-1852), was born at Ballycastle, County Antrim on 17 July 1795, just three years before the Irish Rebellion of 1798; and, in 1798, M‘Neile was taken by his mother from Ballycastle to relatives in Scotland, in an open boat, to escape the dangers and atrocities of “the troubles” associated with the Irish Rebellion (Boyd, 1968).
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