a clergyman of the Church of England, born in the island of Jersey, Dec. 7, 1754. He was educated at the College of Volognes, Normandy, 1764 to 1769; at the Southampton Grammar school and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he graduated about 1776. He took orders in the Church; held for several years a living at Bury St. Edmund's, and became rector of Stradishall, Suffolk, in 1787. From 1781 to 1830 he was head-master of the celebrated school founded at Reading by Henry VII, and composed for that institution a series of classical text-books of considerable reputation. He died at Kensington, March 28,1836.
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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