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unusual facts about Hugh Boyd M‘Neile



Edward Irving

, moderated by Hugh Boyd M‘Neile (1795-1879), at his friend Henry Drummond's seat, Albury Park at Albury, Surrey concerning unfulfilled prophecy, followed by an almost exclusive study of the prophetical books and especially of the Apocalypse, and by several series of sermons on prophecy both in London and the provinces.

Hugh M‘Neile

and for his eisegetical projections of Biblical texts onto current events.

Early in 1822, his preaching in London so impressed the banker and parliamentarian Henry Drummond (1786–1860) that Drummond appointed M‘Neile to the living of the parish of Albury Park, Surrey, from where M‘Neile’s first collection of sermons, Seventeen Sermons, etc.

His experience of the deception of Okey Sisters’ reputed speaking in tongues with Irving, and his knowledge of their later association with Elliotson and his mesmerism, and their well-attested fraudulent deception of Elliotson, must have strongly informed his later views of the activities of magnetists such as Lafontaine.

Neile Adams

Neile was first married (1956–1972) to actor Steve McQueen. Adams' influence with agents helped McQueen establish his own career.

Paul Neile

Neile married Elizabeth Clarke, daughter of Gabriel Clarke, D.D., Archdeacon of Durham.

Sir Paul Neile FRS (1613 – February 1686) was an English astronomer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and from 1673 to 1677.

St George's Hall, Liverpool

The niches contain the statues of William Roscoe by Chantrey, Sir William Brown by Patrick MacDowell, Robert Peel by Matthew Noble, George Stephenson by John Gibson, Hugh Boyd M‘Neile by George Gamon Adams, Edward Whitley by A. Bruce Joy, S.


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