BLOMFIELD

Chablbs Jahes, Bishop of London, a prelate of great learning and zeal in promoting the interests of religion, was the son of a schoolmaster at Bury -St. -Edmunds, Suffolk, and bom there in 1786. He studied for the church at Cambridge, where he took high honours; and after filling succe ively several curacies, and acting for a time as chaplain to the Bishop of London, was presented to the rectory of St. Botolph, Bishops gate. In 1824 he was made Bishop of Chester, and in 1828 Bishop of London. He acquired considerable renown as a cla ical scholar from the editions published by him of several of the dramas of ^Gschylus, and he also published an edition of Call i mach us, which is much* esteemed. Along with Eennel he edited, in 1812, the Mu e Cantabrigienses, and in 1814, along with Monk, the Posthumous Tracts of Person, followed two years afterwards by the Adversaria PorsonL In his ecclesiastical capacity he displayed great zeal and eneigy, more churches having been built in London under his episcopate than under that of any bishop since the Reformation. He incurred, however, some animadversions on his proceedings in relation to the Tractarian controversy by a vacillating policy, which gave satisfaction to neither of the parties. He died at Fulham, on 5th August, 1857.