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JOHN JAMES BLUNT (1794–1855)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 93 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:JAMES See also:BLUNT (1794–1855)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born at See also:Newcastle-under-Lyme in See also:Staffordshire, and educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he took his degree as fifteenth wrangler and obtained a fellowship (1816) . He was appointed a Wort's travelling See also:bachelor 1818, and spent some See also:time in See also:Italy and See also:Sicily, afterwards See also:publishing an See also:account of his See also:journey . He proceeded M.A. in 1819, B.D . 1826, and was Hulsean Lecturer in 1831–1832 while holding a curacy in See also:Shropshire . In 1834 he became See also:rector of See also:Great Oakley in See also:Essex, and in 1839 was appointed See also:Lady See also:Margaret See also:professor of divinity at Cambridge . In 1854 he declined the see of See also:Salisbury, and he died on the 18th of See also:June 1855 . His See also:chief See also:book was Undesigned Coincidences in the Writings both of the Old and New Testaments (1833; See also:fuller edition, 1847) . Some of his writings, among them the See also:History of the See also:Christian See also:Church during the First Three Centuries and the lectures On the Right Use of the See also:Early Fathers, were published posthumously . A See also:short memoir of him appeared in 1856 from the See also:hand of See also:William See also:Selwyn, his successor in the divinity professorship .

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