Blomfield

Blomfield, CHARLES JAMES, Bishop of London, was born in 1786 at Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, where his father was schoolmaster. Thence he passed to Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was elected a fellow; and taking orders in 1810, he became incumbent of St Botolph, London (1819), Archdeacon of Colchester (1822), and Bishop of Chester (1824), whence in 1828 he was translated to London. Blomfield's reputation for classical scholarship rests on his editions of Æschylus, Callimachus, Euripides, &c. He was exceedingly active in the superintendence of his diocese, and was an originator of the movement for the erection of new churches, setting about the building of fifty at once. He died 5th August 1857. See the Life by his son (2 vols. 1863).