Clissold, Henry, Am

Clissold, Henry, A.M., a Church of England divine, was born in 1796. He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1818, and in 1830 was presented by lord Lyndhurst to the rectory of Chelmondiston, Suffolk, which benefice he held twenty-eight years. Part of the time. in connection with this, he was also, for thirty-three' years, minister of Stockwell Chapel, Lambeth. Mr. Clissold was best known, however, as one of the leaders of the evangelical party in the Church, and as an author of several excellent religious works of a practical character. He died in London, Jan. 1, 1867. See Appleton's Annual Cyclop. 1867, p. 587.