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(1872). BLUNDELL, FREDERICK. Second lieutenant Madras artillery 1813, colonel 4 May 1858 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Cheltenham 5 July 1860 aged 62. BLUNDELL, JAMES. _b._ London 27 Dec. 1790; ed. at United Borough hospitals and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1813; physician in London 1813 to death; L.R.C.P. 25 June 1818, F.R.C.P. 6 Aug. 1838; lecturer at Guy’s hospital 1819 to 1836; his class on Midwifery was largest in London; author of _Researches, physiological and pathological_ 1825; _Principles and practice of Obstetricy_ 1834; _Observations on some of the more important diseases of women_ 1837; _d._ 80 Piccadilly, London 15 Jany. 1878. Personalty sworn under £350,000, 9 Feb. 1878. _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery vol. 1_ (1840), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery ii_, 59 (1846), _portrait_; _Medical Circular i_, 283 (1852). BLUNT, JOHN ELIJAH. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 24 June 1822; a comr. in lunacy 1833–42; master in chancery 26 Nov. 1849 to death; author of _A history of the establishment and residence of the Jews in England with an enquiry into their civil disabilities_ 1830. _d._ 45 Dover st. Piccadilly, London 28 June 1856 aged 59. BLUNT, REV. JOHN HENRY. _b._ Chelsea 25 Aug. 1823; a manufacturing chemist in London; entered Univ. coll. Durham 1850, L. Th. 1852, hon. M.A. 1855, hon. D.D. June 1882; C. of Tynemouth, Northumberland 1853–54; C. of Breamore, Hants. 1867–68; V. of Kennington near Oxford 1868–73; R. of Beverstone, Gloucs. 20 Jany. 1873 to death; F.S.A. 7 June 1866; author of _The Atonement_ 1855; _Three essays on the Reformation_ 1860; _Key to the Bible_ 1865; _Annotated book of Common Prayer_ 1866, _new ed._ 1884; _History of the Reformation_ 1868; _Dictionary of theology_ 1870, _2 ed._ 1872; _The book of church law_ 1872; _Dictionary of sects and heresies_ 1874; _Annotated Bible_ 1878 and many other books. _d._ London 11 April 1884. _Church Times 18 April 1884 p._ 303. BLUNT, REV. JOHN JAMES (_son of Rev. John Blunt V. of Lilleshall, Shropshire who d. 14 June 1843 aged 77_). _b._ Newcastle-under-Lyme 1794; entered St. John’s coll. Cam. 1812, first Bell scholar 1813, 15 wrangler 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819, B.D. 1826, fellow of his college 1816; travelling bachelor 1818, travelled in Italy and Sicily; C. of Hodnet, Shropshire 1823; C. of Chetwynd, Shropshire; Hulsean lecturer at Cam. 1831–32; R. of Great Oakley, Essex 1834–39; Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge 9 May 1839; offered the bishopric of Salisbury 1854; author of _Vestiges of ancient manners and customs discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily_ 1823; _Sketch of the Reformation in England_ 1832, _29 ed._ 1875; _The acquirements and principal obligations and duties of the parish priest_ 1856, _6 ed._ 1872; _A history of the Christian church during the first three centuries_ 1856, _4 ed._ 1869; _On the right use of the early fathers, two series of lectures_ 1857, _2 ed._ 1858. _d._ Cambridge 17 June