Background
Martin Rawson Patrick McGuire was born in 1897.
editor of The New Catholic Encyclopedia
Martin Rawson Patrick McGuire was born in 1897.
McGuire spent his whole career at The Catholic University of America, joining as a graduate assistant while he studied for his Master of Arts. He received his Doctor of Philosophy there in 1927 for a dissertation on Saint Ambrose.
He became, in succession, ordinary professor, graduate dean, and chair of the Department of Greek and Latin from 1949 to 1962. He was senior editor of The New Catholic Encyclopedia, for which he wrote 114 articles McGuire died on 15 March 1969.