MACNABB, VINCENT. — Dominican theologian and preacher, b. at Portaferry (Ireland) on 8 July 1868, d. in London on 17 June 1943. For forty years he taught philosophy, dogmatic theology, and exegesis at the London convent. It was owing to him that the teaching of St Tommaso was introduced at the University of London. He was an original and prolific writer (some thirty works) and a highly individual controversialist. Through his celebrated lectures at Hyde Park he gained great popularity and was considered one of the most eminent men of the Catholic clergy of England.
Among his principal works: Infallibility (London 1925); The New Testament witness to St Peter (there 1928; Italian trans., Brescia 1943); The New Testament witness to Our Blessed Lady (London 1930; Italian trans., Brescia 1939); The Church and reunion (London 1937); Frontiers of faith and reason (there 1937); A life of Our Lord (there 1938); Mary of Nazareth (there 1940).