Lindsay (properly Alexander William Crawford), Lord (known after the death of his father as Count of Crawford and Balcarres), an English writer, was born October 16, 1812. He was educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1833 as master of arts. He then travelled extensively, and published in 1838 his Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land, in two volumes. In 1844 he published A
Letter to a Friend on the Evidence and Theory of Christianity, and in 1846 Progression by Antagonism. In 1861 he issued his Scepticism, in 1870 (Ecumenicity in Relation to the Church of England, and in 1872 Etruscan Inscriptions. He died at Florence, December 13, 1880. A large work on comparative history of the religions of antiquity, which he intended to publish under the title of The Religion of Noah, was left incomplete. (B.P.)
The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature was edited by John McClintock and James Strong. It contains nearly 50,000 articles pertaining to Biblical and other religious literature, people, creeds, etc. It is a fantastic research tool for broad Christian study.
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