Blomfield

Blomfield, Charles James, D.D., was born at Bury St. Edmunds in 1786, and distinguished himself at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he held a fellowship. He edited several plays of AEschylus, the poems of Callimachus, and the literary remains of Porson. In 1819 he became rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, and in 1824 was made Bishop of Chester, being translated to the see of London in 1828. He resigned in 1856, and died in the following year. His exertions were devoted chiefly to the extension of the Church at home and in the Colonies, and more churches were built in London during his episcopacy than under any bishop since the Restoration. He also took a strong part in the religious controversies that began to stir the nation in his day, his views being opposed to those of the Tractarians, but in favour of church reform.