Blackwood, Christopher an English Baptist minister, was born in 1686. He was a graduate of Cambridge University, and at the beginning of the Parliamentary war the rector of a parish in Kent. A change of views on the proper subjects of baptism led to his leaving the national Church, and for a time he was pastor of a Baptist Church near Stapleshurst, and then, as a chaplain in the army, went to Ireland. Subsequently he was instrumental in forming a-Baptist Church in Dublin, of which he was the pastor for several years. He was regarded as a fine scholar, especially in patristic literature, and was himself the author of several valuable works, which, in their day, were very popular. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclopaedia, p. 104. (J. C. S.)
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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