Lindsay, John (3)
Lindsay, John
(1), a learned English divine, who flourished about the middle of the 17th century, was educated at St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford, and for many years officiated as a minister of the nonjuring society in Trinity Chapel, Aldersgate Street, and is said to have been their last minister. He was also for some time a corrector of the press for Mr. Bowyer, the printer. He finished a long and useful life June 21, 1768. Mr. Lindsay published a Short History of the Regal Succession, etc., with Remarks on Whiston’s Scripture Politics, etc. (1720, 8vo); a translation of Mason’s Vindication of the Chucrch of England (1726, reprinted in 1728), which has a large and elaborate preface, containing “a full and particular series of the succession of our bishops, through the several reigns since the Reformation,” etc. In 1747 he published Mason’s Two Sermons preached at Court in 1620. See Genesis Biog. Dict. s.v.
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Lindsay, John (2)
(2), a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, July 18, 1788; was converted in 1807; entered the New England Conference in 1809; was agent for the Wesleyan University in 1835-6; in 1837 was transferred to the New York Conference, and made presiding elder on New Haven District; next he filled two stations in New York City; in 1842 he was agent for the American Bible Society; was transferred in 1845 to the Troy Conference; was appointed to the Albany District in 1846; and died at Schenectady February 10, 1850. Mr. Lindsay was an impressive and successful preacher, and a man of noble benevolence. He was very active in the founding of the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, and the Wesleyan University. Minutes of Conf. 4:460; Stevens, Memorials of Methodism, volume 2, chapter 41. (G.L.T.)
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Lindsay, John (3)
a Scotch prelate, was promoted to the see of Glasgow about 1325. This prelate was killed in 1335 while returning from Flanders to Scotland. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 244.