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Born in 1836
Biographical Note
John Clifford, Baptist divine, was born at Lawley, Derbyshire, in 1836. He was educated at the Baptist College, Nottingham, and University College, London. He has had much editorial as well as ministerial experience and has published a number of works upon religious, educational and social questions. The Rev. William Durban, the editor, writing from London of John Clifford in the Homiletic Review, styles him “the renowned Baptist preacher, undoubtedly the most conspicuous figure in his own denomination.†He speaks of “the profundity of thought,†“simplicity and beauty of diction,†the “compactness of argument†and “instructive expository character†of this preacher’s discourses.