Gill

Gill, John (1697-1771), a Baptist divine and controversialist, was born at Kettering, Northants.

He taught himself Hebrew and the classical languages, and was a minister in London from 1719 till his death. He defended the authenticity of the Song of Solomon against Whiston, and wrote an Exposition of the Old Testament (republished with a memoir in 1810), an Exposition of the New Testament, and several other didactic and" controversial works.