Thomas Maguire (priest)

For other people with the same name, see Thomas Maguire.

Thomas Maguire (May 9, 1776 – July 17, 1854) was an American-born Canadian Roman Catholic priest, a vicar general and an educator.

Thomas Maguire
Born	(1776-05-09)May 9, 1776 Philadelphia
Died	July 17, 1854(1854-07-17) (aged 78) Quebec City, Canada East

Maguire was born in Philadelphia to new immigrants from Ireland. Loyalists, the Maguire family relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia 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 in his struggle with the Sulpicians in the Montreal district.

References

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• the Canadian Encyclopedia

External links

• Works by Thomas Maguire at Faded Page (Canada)