Thom's Irish Who's Who/Macneill, John Gordon Swift

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.