MACNAMARA,
Thomas James, British statesman, educator and author: b. Montreal. Canada, 23 Aug. 1861. He went to England at an early age and was educated at Saint Thomas School, Exeter, and at the Bor ough Road Training College for Teachers. He was engaged in teaching in 1876-92 and was president of the National Union of Teachers in 1896. He was elected to Parliament for North Camberwell in 1900; served as Parliamentary Secretary of the Local 'Government Board in 1907-08 and to the Admiralty in 1908-15, when he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Admiralty. He has contributed extensively to the periodical press, is author of numerous text books and of 'Schoolmaster Sketches' (1896) ;
MacNEIL, Carol Brooks, American sculptor, wife of Hermon Atkins MacNeil (q.v.) : b. Chicago, III., 15 Jan. 1871. She studied at the Art Institute and under Lorado Taft, Chicago, and under MacMonnies and Injalbert, Paris. She exhibited at the Chicago Exposition, 1893; at the Paris salons in 1894, 1895 and 1900; re ceived honorable mention at the Paris Exposi tion of 1900; and the bronze medal at Saint Louis in 1904.
MacNEIL, Hermon Atkins, American sculptor: b. Chelsea, Mass., 1866. He was graduated at the Massachusetts State Normal School in 1886; and later spent two years in study under Chapu at Julien Academy, and two years under Falguiere at the Bcole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He afterward taught for three years at Cornell, and three years also at the Art Institute, Chicago. He won the Roman Rhine hart scholarship in sculpture for 1896-1900. He was awarded the medal in design at the Chicago Exposition in 1893; received the silver medal at the Paris Exposition in 1900; the gold medal at the Buffalo Exposition in 1901; silver medal at the Charleston Exposition in 1902; commemo rative medal at Saint Louis in 1904; and the gold medal at the Panama Exposition in 1915. He was engaged in important decorative work for the expositions at Chicago, Paris, Buffalo and Panama. He executed the spandrels on the portico of the National pavilion at the Paris Exposition. where he exhibited the groups The Sun Vow' and the 'Last Act of the Moqui Snake Dance.' The main cascade fountain at the Saint Louis Exposition was his work, and he served on the jury of awards. He is a teacher of modeling at the National Academy of Design, New York. Among his other work may be mentioned 'The Coming of the White Man' (City Park, Portland, Ore.) ; 'McKinley Memorial' (Columbus, Ohio) ; 'Soldiers and Sailors Memorial' (Whittinsville, Mass.) ; 'Or ville Hitchcock Platt Memorial' (State Capitol, Hartford, Conn:) ; 'General Washington' (Washington Arch, New York), etc. He was elected to the National Academy in 1906. His work is represented at the Art Institute, Chi cago; Peabody Institute, Baltimore; Cornell University; the Metropolitan Museum, New York; and the Johns Hopkins University.
MacNEVIN, or MACNEVEN, William James, American physician: b. Ballynahowne, County Galway, Ireland, 21 March 1763; d. New York, 12 July 1841. When 12 years old he was placed in the care of his uncle, Baron O'Kelly MacNevin, court physician in Austria, and he received his education at the universities of Prague and Vienna, taking his medical degree at Vienna in 1784. He then returned to Ire land and engaged in practice at Dublin. He was a member of the secret society of United Irishmen and his activities in this connection caused his arrest with Thomas Addis Emmet in 1798, and for four years thereafter he was im prisoned. He then joined the Irish Legion under Napoleon in the hope of French inter vention in Ireland. After three years he aban doned this hope and emigrated to the United States, establishing himself in practice in New York. He became professor of obstetrics in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1808, and was professor of chemistry and materia medica there in 1811. He established in con nection with his work as a teacher the first chemical laboratory in New York. He resigned in 1826 and together with several leading physi cians founded a new medical school on Duane street, in which he held the chairs of materia medica and therapeutics until the school closed in 1830. He was president of the "Friends of Ireland" and belonged to most of the Irish societies in New York. He was coeditor and contributor to the New York Medical and Philosophical Journal. He edited 1Brande's Chemistry' (1831); and was author of 'Ram bles through Switzerland' (1803) ; 'Chemical Examination of the Mineral Waters of Schooley's Mountains) (1815) ; 'Exposition of the Atomic Theory of Chemistry' (1819), etc.
McNICHOLAS, (Rt. Rev.) John T., 0.P., American Catholic prelate: b. County Mayo, Ireland, 1877. He came to the United States when a child; began his studies in the Gesu. Philadelphia, continued them in the Dominican establishments of Kentucky and Ohio and completed them in the University of Minerva, Rome, where, specializing in canon law, he at tained the degree of D.D. Returning to America, he became master of novices in the Dominican novitiate, Somerset, Ohio, acting also as professor of philosophy, canon law and homiletics. After holding this office for five years, he became director of the Bureau of the Holy Name in New York City and editor of the Holy Name Journal, for eight years devoting himself energetically to the organization of branches of the Holy Name Society in every State of the Union. He is an accomplished linguist, and authoritatively has contributed much to the literature of canon law. In 1916 Dr. McNicholas became assistant to the Dominican General in Rome, where, 18 July 1918, he received the appointment as second bishop of Duluth, Minn.