Thom's Irish Who's Who/M'Neill, Ronald

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.