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==Life==
Bellett was born in [[Dublin]], Ireland. He was educated first at the Grammargrammar Schoolschool in [[Exeter]], England, then at [[Trinity College Dublin]], where he excelled in Classicsclassics,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/plymouth.html|title=The Plymouth Brethren}}</ref> and afterwards in London.
 
It was in Dublin that, as a layman, he first became acquainted with [[John Nelson Darby]], then a minister in the established [[Church of Ireland]], and in 1829 the pair began meeting with others such as [[Edward Cronin (homeopath)|Edward Cronin]] and Francis Hutchinson for [[Eucharist|communion]] and prayer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/Biographies/jgbellett.html|title = John Gifford Bellet Bio}}</ref>
 
Bellett had become a Christian as a student and by 1827 was a layman serving the Churchchurch. In a letter to James McAllister,<ref>[https://www.bruederbewegung.de/pdf/reminiscences.pdf Early Days of the Brethren Movement]</ref> written in 1858, he describes the episcopal charge of [[William Magee (archbishop of Dublin)|William Magee]], [[Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)|Archbishop of Dublin]], that sought for greater state protection for the Church. The [[Erastian]] nature of the charge offended Darby particularly, but also many others including Bellett.<ref>Grayson Carter, ''Anglican Evangelicals'', OUP 2001, p. 212, {{ISBN|978-0-19-827008-9}}</ref>
 
The pair bonded particularly over prophetic issues, and attended meetings and discussions together at the home of Lady [[Viscount Powerscourt|Powerscourt]], and Bellett and Darby (along with the Brethren movement in particular) were particularly associated with [[dispensationalism]] and [[premillennialism]].
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