McNAIW, FREDERICK VILLETTE S39-1900). An American naval officer, born at Jenkintown, Pa. Ile graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1857, and in 1872 was appointed a commander. During the Civil War he partiei pated in the attacks on Voris Jackson and Saint Philip. the capture of New ()deans and the pas sage of the Vicksburg batteries. In 1875 be was made commander of the Fantle in the Asiatic Squadron, in ISS7 commander of the flagship Omaha, and in 1895 admiral of the squadron. In 1898 he was appointed a member of the Lighthouse Board, and in the same year he was succeeded in command by Dewey. He was subsequently ordered to take charge of Ad miral Cervera and other distinguished Spanish prisoners, and after their return to Spain be came superintendent of the Naval Academy.
McNEILE, mrik-nPV, limit (1795-1879). Dean of Ripon. Ile was horn in Ballyeastle, Antrim, Ireland, was graduated at Trinity Col lege. Dublin, in 1815; stndied law in Dublin and London, but after a severe illness turned to the Church; was ordained in 1820 to a curacy in Ireland, and was afterwards rector of Albury in Surrey, and perpetual curate of the Church of Saint Liverpool; afterwards Saint Paul's Church, in Prince's Park, Liverpool. was built
for him. In 1845 he was appointed ea non of Chester Cathedral, and in 1860 eanon residen tiary. He became Dean of Ripon in 1868, but resigned from that position in 1875 and retired to Bournemouth. He was at one time inclined to embrace the doctrines of Edward Irving, but gave them up and reviewed them severely in three sermons on I/ iracles ( 1831-32 ) , and in Letters to a Friend who had felt it his Duty to secede from the Church of England (1834). Other works include collections of sermons: Lec tures on the Prophecies Relatire to the Jewish Nation (1830) Lcetures on the Church of Eng land (1840); Lectures on the Sympathies, Suffer ings and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ ( 1843 ) ; Sermons on the Second Adrent of Christ (1805); Letters on the „.1thanasian Creed (1873) ; Scripture Proportions, Illustrated by the Place which the Lord's Supper Occupies in the New Testament (1873). The first volume of an edition of his collected works appeared in 1877. Consult Hugh. McNcilc and Reformation Truth, with biographical sketch by Bullock (Lon don, 1882).