MacNeill, John Gordon Swift (1849–1926)

Irish politician. He secured the abolition of flogging in the Royal Navy. He also succeeded in obtaining recognition of the principle that a minister of the Crown must not be a director of a public company. He represented South Donegal in Parliament as a Nationalist 1887–1918.

He was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Christ Church, Oxford. He was professor of constitutional and criminal law at King's Inn, Dublin 1882–88. He became a KC in 1893.