an English divine, was born at Beverley, in Yorkshire, March 9, 1726-7. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship, and took his degrees in arts. His first preferment was to the perpetual curacy of Bridhurst, in Kent, next the living of Orston, in Nottinghamshire, and afterwards the vicarages of Wormington and Boxted, in Essex. He died in 1804. Mr. Ingram wrote A View of the Great Events of the Seventh Plague, or Period when the Mystery of God shall be finished: Accounts of the Ten Tribes of Israel being in America; originally published by Manasseh ben-Israel: — A Complete and Uniform Explanation of the Prophecy of the Seven Vials of Wrath. See Hook, Eccles. Biography; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gé neralé, 25, 871. (J. N. P.)
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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