McCLELLAN, JOHN BROWN: Church of England; b. in Glasgow, Scotland, Mar. 7, 1838. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1858; M.A., 1861). He was fellow of his college (1859-81). Ordained deacon in 1860, and priest in 1861, he was vicar of Bottisham, Cambridgeshire (1861-,80); and rural dean of first division of Camp's deanery (1871-77). In 1880 he was appointed principal of the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He is the author of: Fourth Nicene Canon and the Election and Consecration of Bishops (London, 1870); and The New Testament: A New Translation (only one vol. published; 1875).

McCLINTOCK, JOHN: Methodist Episcopalian; b. in Philadelphia Oct. 27, 1814; d. at Madison, N. J., Mar. 4, 1870. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835 and was received as a traveling preacher in the New Jersey Annual Conference the same year. From 1836 to 1843 he taught in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn., holding the chair of mathematics 1836-40, and that of Greek and Latin 18408. He was then editor of The Methodist Quarterly Review 1848-56. In 1857 he went to England as a delegate to the Wesleyan Methodist Conference. He was pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, New York, 18570, and pastor of the American Chapel, Paris, 1860-64. During the Civil War in America his pen was constantly active in the interest of the Union cause. In 1864 he was recalled to St. Paul's, but ill health forced him to resign a year later. From 1867 till his death he was president of the newly established Drew ,Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J. He was an eloquent and impressive preacher and one of the best scholars that his denomination has produced. In addition to a popular series of Greek and Latin text-books and numerous articles in periodicals, he published Analysis of Watson's Theological Institutes (New York, 1842; a translation of. Neander's Life of Christ (1847); Sketches of Eminent Methodist Ministers (1852); The Temporal Power of the Pope (1853); and a translation of Bungener's History of the Council of Trent (1855). His most important work, however, was the Cycloptadia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (10 vols. and Supplement 2 vols., New York, 1867-87). In collaboration with James Strong he began to collect materials for this work as early ere 1853, but lived to see only three volumes through the press. After his death there appeared Living Words (1870), a

volume of sermons; and Lectures on Theological Encyclopædia and Methodology (1873).

Bibliography: G. R. Crooks, Lifer and Letters of Rev. John McClintock, New York, 187.