Hugh M'Neile

Hugh Boyd Monet (July 18, 1795 - January 28, 1879) was a well-connected and controversial Irish Calvinist Anglican of Scottish descent. A fierce anti-Tractorist and anti-Roman Catholic (and, especially, anti-Anglo-Catholic) and evangelical and millennial clergyman, who was also a faithful supporter of the principle year after day, M. Neil was the constant guardian of Liverpool St. Jude (1834-1848), permanent custodian of the Princes of St. Paul's Park (1848-1867), honorary canon of Chester Cathedral (1845-1868) and dean of Ripon (1868-1875). ) He was a member of the Protestant Association (in its 19th century incarnation), London Society for the Propaganda of Christianity among Jews, Irish Society, Church Missionary Society and Church Association. M'Neill was an influential, well-connected demagogue, a renowned speaker, an evangelical clergyman, and a ruthless opponent of Paperism, who was constantly inflamed by the ever-growing number of Irish Catholics in Liverpool. He was notorious for his exhilarating oratory, his immoderate sermon, his fruitful publications and his inability to accurately interpret the meaning of the Holy Scriptures on which his diatribes were based (see below). Some just as deeply loved, admired and respected as the object of ridicule and contempt of others.