Thomas Maguire (May 9, 1776 – July 17, 1854) was an American-born Canadian Roman Catholic priest, a vicar general and an educator.
Maguire was born in Philadelphia to new immigrants from Ireland. Loyalists, the Maguire family relocated to
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348,634 people in its urban area. The ...
in the same year.
Maguire was interested in education and in May 1821
Joseph-Octave Plessis appointed him as part of a committee at Quebec to prepare a constitution for the Quebec Education Society. The committee was led by
Joseph-François Perrault.
He supported Bishop
Jean-Jacques Lartigue
Jean-Jacques Lartigue, S.S., (20 June 1777 – 19 April 1840) was a Canadian Sulpician, who served as the first Catholic Bishop of Montreal.
Early life
Lartigue was born to a noted Montreal family, the only son of Jacques Larthigue, a surg ...
in his struggle with the Sulpicians in the Montreal district.
References
Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''the ''Canadian Encyclopedia
External links
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1776 births
1854 deaths
19th-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests
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