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BLOMFIELD, CHARLES JAMES (1786-1857)

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BLOMFIELD, See also:CHARLES See also:JAMES (1786-1857) , See also:English divine, was See also:born on the 29th of May 1786 at See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds. He was educated at the See also:local See also:grammar school and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he gained, the See also:Browne medals for Latin and See also:Greek odes, and carried off the See also:Craven scholarship. In 1808 he graduated as third wrangler and first medallist, and in the following See also:year was elected to a fellowship at Trinity College. The first-fruits of his scholarship was an edition of the See also:Prometheus of See also:Aeschylus in 1810; this was followed by See also:editions of the Septem contra Thebas, Persae, Choephorae, and See also:Agamemnon, of See also:Callimachus, and of the fragments of See also:Sappho, See also:Sophron and See also:Alcaeus. Blomfield, however, soon ceased to devote himself entirely to scholarship. He had been ordained in 1810, and held in See also:quick See also:succession the livings of Chesterford, Quarrington, See also:Dunton, See also:Great and Little Chesterford, and Tuddenham. In 1817 he was appointed private See also:chaplain to Wm. Howley, See also:bishop of See also:London. In 1819 he was nominated to the See also:rich living of St Botolph's, Bishopsgate, and in 1822 he became See also:archdeacon of See also:Colchester. Two years later he was raised to the bishopric of See also:Chester where he carried through many much-needed reforms. In 1828 he was translated to the bishopric of London, which he held for twenty-eight years. During this See also:period his See also:energy and zeal did much to extend the See also:influence of the See also:church.

He was one of the best debaters in the See also:

House of Lords, took a leading position in the See also:action for church reform which culminated in the ecclesiastical See also:commission, and did much for the See also:extension of the colonial episcopate; and his genial and kindly nature made him an invaluable mediator in the controversies arising out of the tractarian See also:movement. His See also:health at last gave way, and in 1856 he was permitted to resign his bishopric, retaining See also:Fulham See also:Palace as his See also:residence, with a See also:pension of £6000 per annum. He died on the 5th of See also:August 1857. His published See also:works, exclusive of those above mentioned, consist of charges, sermons, lectures and See also:pamphlets, and of a See also:Manual of Private and See also:Family Prayers. He was a frequent contributor to the quarterly reviews, chiefly on classical subjects. See See also:Memoirs of Charles James Blomfield, D. D., Bishop of London, with Selections from his See also:Correspondence, edited by his son, See also:Alfred Blom-See also:field (1863); G. E. See also:Biber, Bishop Blomfield and his Times (1857).

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