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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 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.
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