NELIGAN, MOORE RICHARD (1863-1922), a grandson of Canon Neligan, D.D., incumbent of Christ Church, Leeson Park, Dublin, was born in Dublin. He was educated at Reading school and Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained deacon in 1886 and priest in 1887, and served in the parishes of Sculcoates, Hull (1886-87), East Dereham, Norfolk (1889), and Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London (1890-94). From 1894 to 1903 he was vicar of St Stephen's in Paddington, London. In 1903 he was consecrated Bishop of Auckland. (D.D. 1902). Neligan did strenuous work in the growing outlying districts of his diocese. His health failing, he returned to England in 1910, and died in Northern Ireland on 24 Nov 1922. He married in 1894 Mary, daughter of Edmund Macrory, K.C., of London. Neligan's publications include The Religion of Life (1908) and The Churchman as Priest (1914).

Who's Who N.Z., 1908; Crockford; Who Was Who.

Reference: Volume 2, page 61

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