Crowley, Robert an English divine and poet, was born in Gloucestershire or Northamptonshire, and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was elected probationer fellow in 1542. In the beginning of the reign of Edward VI he settled in London, there carried on the trade of printing and bookselling, and preached often, being in orders. Eventually several benefices were bestowed upon him, among which were the archdeaconry and a prebend in Hereford, both of which he resigned in 1567, a prebend in St. Paul's, the rectory of St. Peter le Poor, and the vicarage of St. Giles's, Cripplegate. He died June 18, 1588, leaving, among other works, The Voice of the Last Trumpet, blown by the Seventh Angel: — Pleasure and Pain, Heaven and Hell: — The Four Usual Notes of Christ's Church (1581, 4to). 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