an English clergyman and poet, was born in Northamptonshire in 1737, and was educated at Cambridge, where he took his first degree in 1761. He soon obtained eminence as a pulpit orator. In 1785 he was presented to the living of Peasemarsh, and later with a prebend in the cathedral of Chichester. He died in 1832. Among his works are The Conversion of St. Paul, a poetical essay, which secured him a prize from his alma mater in 1764: — The Antiquities of Herculaneum, a translation from the Italian (1773) — The Immortality of the Soul, translated from the French (1795). See Biog. Dict. Of Living Authors (Lond. 1816); Allibone, Dict. of Authors, vol. 2, s.v.; Thomas, Biogr. Dict. 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