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Antliff, James Cooper
1844-1920
Rev. James Cooper Antliff was born on February 1, 1844, in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, son of Rev. William Antliff (1813-1884).
He was a Methodist clergyman. He was educated at Haslingden Wesleyan School, Edinburgh University (M.A., 1873; B.D., 1874) and Victoria University (Honoris Causa D.D., 1887). Antliff was a Professor of Hebrew and Apologetics at the Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal, for nine years. He also served as a Secretary of the Methodist Church of Canada.
In 1866, he married Fanny H. Holden (1845–1880), and in 1882, he remarried Jane Elizabeth Gooderham (1840–). He died on December 25, 1920, in Montreal, Quebec.