Editing Hugh M'Neile (section)

== Education ==
[[File:Hugh Boyd M'Neile (1840).jpg|thumb|240px|M‘Neile in 1840]]
M‘Neile received a private education. He entered [[Trinity College Dublin]] in 1810, and graduated [[Bachelor of Arts|Artium Baccalaureus (AB)]], with a good degree in classics in 1815. He also began legal studies at [[King's Inns|The King's Inns in Dublin]] and, having served all his terms there, transferred to London's [[Lincoln's Inn]] in 1814. He almost completed his terms there as well when, around 1819, he decided to abandon the law as well as the political career that his family had anticipated for him and return to his studies in order to qualify for ordination. He graduated ''[[Master of Arts|Magister Artium]]'', at Dublin University in 1822.

In 1847, M‘Neilee graduated [[Bachelor of Divinity|Bachelor of Divinity (BD)]] and [[Doctor of Divinity|Doctor of Divinity (DD)]] from Dublin University.<ref>"Domestic Intelligence: Ireland", ''The Aberdeen Journal, and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland'', No.5182, (5 May 1847), p.7, col.B.</ref> In essence, the BD degree was a coursework and postgraduate degree only available to those who had graduated MA at least 10 years earlier; the DD was conventionally awarded simultaneously on the basis of published work. In M‘Neile's case the published work would have been ''The Church and the Churches'' (1846).<ref>''Crockford'' (1868, p. 432) mistakenly asserts that M‘Neile’s two divinity degrees were awarded to him "''[[Honorary degree|honoris causa]]''". They were not ''honoris causa'' and they were not "token" degrees. They were awarded simultaneously on the basis of coursework (BD) and published work (DD). They were, essentially, Trinity College’s equivalent of the Oxford University’s current '''Bachelor and Doctor in Divinity by Accumulation'''.</ref>

On 16 June 1860, an Incorporate DD – i.e., a doctorate {{lang|la|ad eundem gradum}} ("to the same degree"), admitting M‘Neile as a member of Cambridge University by virtue of his possession of a DD from another university (Trinity College Dublin) – was conferred upon him at Cambridge University.<ref>"University Intelligence", ''Morning Chronicle'', 18 June 1860.</ref>