CHARLES

See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

JAMES

See also:

• CHARLES JAMES BLOMFIELD (1786-1857)
• BLOMFIELD, EDWARD VALENTINE (1788-1816)
• BLOMFIELD, SIR ARTHUR WILLIAM (1829-1899)

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

He was one of the best debaters in the

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