BLOMFIELD

Right Rev. Charles James ( eld. son of Charles Blomfield of Bury St. Edmunds, school master who d. 28 Sep. 1831 in 69 year ). b. Bury St. Edmunds 29 May 1786; ed. at Bury gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1805, fellow Oct. 1809, Craven Univ. scholar 1806, 3 wrangler and Chancellor’s cla ical medallist 1808; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, B.D. 1818, D.D. 1820; R. of Dunton, Bucks. Dec. 1811; V. and R. of Great and Little Chester ford July 1817; R. of Tuddenham, Suffolk 1817; R. of St. Botolph, Bishops gate May 1820; archdeacon of Col chester 15 Jany. 1822 to 4 June 1824; bishop of Chester 8 June 1824, consecrated in White hall chapel 20 June; bishop of London 15 Aug. 1828 to 30 Sep. 1856 when he resigned on a pension of £6000; P.C. 31 July 1828; admitted dean of chapels royal 12 Dec. 1828, enthroned in St. Paul’s cathedral 16 Jany. 1829; member of Ecclesiastical commi ion 1836 of which he was the moving spirit; published editions of Pro me the us Vinctus 1810, Septem contra Thebas 1812, Persæ 1814, Choephoræ 1821; an edition of Call i mach us 1815 and of Euripi des 1821; wrote on cla ical subjects for Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews , and for the Museum Criticum a journal established by himself and James Henry Monk 1813. d. Fulham palace 5 Aug. 1857. A memoir of C. J. Blomfield edited by his son Alfred Blomfield, 2 ed. 1864; Rev. G. E. Biber’s Bishop Blomfield and his times 1857; H. Martin eau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 167–74; I.L.N. xxiv , 401 (1854), portrait .