an English clergyman, was born in 1601, and educated at St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford. He received holy orders in 1618. Soon after lie obtained the rectories of Hodnet and Ightfield, which he enjoyed until the Civil War. In 1640 he returned to Oxford to serve the king, and was made archdeacon of Coventry. After the political troubles were over he went to Holland. While at the Hague, in 1650, he published two little pieces-The Tablet and The Moderation of Charles I, the Martyr. Failing in his supplies from England, and his hopes becoming frustrated, he was compelled to accept an offer to go to Virginia, where he died in 1653.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More