Blunt, JOHN JAMES, divine, born in 1794, at Newcastle-under-Lyme, in Staffordshire, in 1812 entered St John's College, Cambridge, graduated fifteenth wrangler, and obtained a fellowship. Till 1834 a curate in Shropshire, then rector of
Great Oakley, in Essex, in 1839 he became Lady Margaret professor of Divinity at Cambridge, where he died 18th June 1855, having the year before declined the bishopric of Salisbury. The best known of his works is Undesigned Coincidences (1833). See Professor Selwyn's memoir of him prefixed to his Two Introductory Lectures (1856).