Bligh, John an English Congregational minister, was a native of Worcester, and was for many years engaged in the work of the Home Missionary Society. He was a student at Cotton End from 1842 until 1845, when he was appointed to the pastorate of Great Bourton in Oxfordshire. In 1852 he removed to Brandsburton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where he remained but a short time, accepting a call to the Church at Hay, Brecknockshire, in September, 1854. He ceased to act as a home missionary in 1856, and accepted a pastorate at Ombersley in Worcestershire. In 1860 he removed to London, where he again took work as a missionary at the East End. He died Dec. 11, 1878. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1880, p. 309.
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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