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BLUNT, JOHN HENRY (1823–1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLUNT, See also:JOHN See also:HENRY (1823–1884) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at See also:Chelsea in 1823, and before going to the university of See also:Durham in 1850 was for some years engaged in business as a manufacturing chemist. He was ordained in 1852 and took his M.A. degree in 1855, See also:publishing in the same See also:year a See also:work on The See also:Atonement. He held in See also:succession several preferments, among them the vicarage of See also:Kennington near See also:Oxford (1868), which he vacated in 1873 for the See also:crown living of Beverston in See also:Gloucestershire. He had already gained some reputation as an industrious theologian, and had published among other See also:works an annotated edition of the See also:Prayer See also:Book (1867), a See also:History of the English See also:Reformation (1868), and a Book of See also:Church See also:Law (1872), as well as a useful See also:Dictionary of Doctrinal and See also:Historical See also:Theology (187o). The continuation of these labours was seen in a Dictionary of Sects and Heresies (1874), an Annotated See also:Bible (3 vols., 1878–r879), and a Cyclopaedia of See also:Religion (1884), and received recognition in the shape of the D.D. degree bestowed on him in 1882. He died in See also:London on the 1th of See also:April 1884.

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