Jesuit priest who collected Coleoptera in Africa mainly at Dunbrody, near Port Elizabeth and in Rhodesia. The bulk of his insects are in the South African Museum and in the Albany Museum at Grahamstown. Further beetles collected by him in Rhodesia, 1913-14, are at Glasgow Museum in the collection from the Notre Dame Teacher Training College presented in 1985 (information from Geoff Hancock); and there are also beetles bearing his name in Willoughby Ellis’ foreign collection at Liverpool Museum, and in the NHM collected between 1919-20. O’Niel is recorded to have had a species of moth named after him. (MD 7/04)