Leng, John an English prelate, was born in 1665, and, after having completed his studies at Cambridge, became chaplain to king George I. In 1723 his royal master made Leng bishop of Norwich. He died in 1727. He published editions of the Plutus and Nubes of Aristophanes (1695): — an excellent edition of Terence (Cambridge, 1701): — Sermons at Boyle's Lectures (1717-18), and twelve separate Sermons (1699-1727). See Nichols's Lit. Anzec. Lyson's Environs. — Allibone, Dictionary of British and American Authors, 2:1084.
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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