Niall McNeill

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Niall MacNeill (1899 –1969) was an Irish army officer and entomologist who specialised in Odonata and Heteroptera.

He was the son of Eoin MacNeill founder of the Irish Volunteers which Niall MacNeill joined later becoming an officer in the Irish Army. With the rank of Colonel he specialised in surveying, training with the Royal Engineers on the Isle of Wight. After retiring from the army he worked for the State Ordnance Survey and he was made Assistant Director in 1935.

MacNeill is best known for his studies of larval Odonata on which he worked with A. Eric Gardner and Frederic Charles Fraser. He was a personal friend of both and of Cynthia Longfield.

Niall MacNeill was a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

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Anon. 1970 Obituary Irish Naturalists' Journal 16:289-90.
Longfield, C. 1970 Tribute to Colonel MacNeill as an entomologist. Irish Naturalists' Journal 16: 290-291.