Bernard, Andrew an Augustine monk, was born at Toulouse, and was poet-laureate successively to Henry VII and Henry VIII of England. He is also supposed to have been the royal historiographer, and preceptor in grammar to prince Arthur. All the pieces remaining, which he wrote in the character of poet-laureate, are in Latin. Among them are an Address to Henry VIII for the Most Auspicious Beginning of the Tenth Year of his Reign: — A New-year's Gift for 1515: — Verses wishing Prosperity to his Majesty's Thirteenth Year. He wrote also some Latin hymns, a Latin Life of St. Andrew, and various other Latin prose works particularly Chronicle of the Life aind Achievements of Henry VII to the Taking of Perkin Warbeck. He was living in 1522. See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v. Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.
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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