BLOMFIELD, RIGHT REV. CHARLES JAMES (_eld. son of Charles Blomfield of Bury St. Edmunds, school master who d. 28 Sep. 1831 in 69 year_). _b._ Bury St. Edmunds 29 May 1786; ed. at Bury gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1805, fellow Oct. 1809, Craven Univ. scholar 1806, 3 wrangler and Chancellor’s classical medallist 1808; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, B.D. 1818, D.D. 1820; R. of Dunton, Bucks. Dec. 1811; V. and R. of Great and Little Chesterford July 1817; R. of Tuddenham, Suffolk 1817; R. of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate May 1820; archdeacon of Colchester 15 Jany. 1822 to 4 June 1824; bishop of Chester 8 June 1824, consecrated in Whitehall chapel 20 June; bishop of London 15 Aug. 1828 to 30 Sep. 1856 when he resigned on a pension of £6000; P.C. 31 July 1828; admitted dean of chapels royal 12 Dec. 1828, enthroned in St. Paul’s cathedral 16 Jany. 1829; member of Ecclesiastical commission 1836 of which he was the moving spirit; published editions of _Prometheus Vinctus_ 1810, _Septem contra Thebas_ 1812, _Persæ_ 1814, _Choephoræ_ 1821; an edition of _Callimachus_ 1815 and of _Euripides_ 1821; wrote on classical subjects for _Edinburgh_ and _Quarterly Reviews_, and for the _Museum Criticum_ a journal established by himself and James Henry Monk 1813. _d._ Fulham palace 5 Aug. 1857. _A memoir of C. J. Blomfield edited by his son Alfred Blomfield, 2 ed._ 1864; _Rev. G. E. Biber’s Bishop Blomfield and his times_ 1857; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed._ (1876) 167–74; _I.L.N. xxiv_, 401 (1854), _portrait_. BLOOD, BINDON. _b._ Cranacher, Ireland; lived at 22 Queen st. Edinburgh 1829–42; an original member of the Abbotsford Club 20 March 1833; a great collector of books which were piled in great heaps in his garrets, cellars and warerooms like unsorted goods; known as The Vampire and The Dragon. _d._ Ireland 1855. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 11–14, _portrait_; _J. H. Burton’s The bookhunter, new ed._ (1882) 55–58. BLOOD, CLEMENTS. Lieutenant Bombay artillery 10 June 1821; major Bombay artillery 10 Nov. 1854; brigadier in command at Ahmednuggur 12 March 1855 to 18 Feb. 1858, and at Hyderabad 18 Feb. 1858 to 12 May 1859 when he retired with rank of M.G. _d._ Chiswick, Middlesex 10 April 1869 aged 63. BLOOD, RICHARD. Lieutenant 6 Bombay N.I. 20 April 1819, lieut. col. 1 European regiment 1 Nov. 1852 to 18 May 1858; M.G. 1 Dec. 1858. _d._ 6 Circus road, St. John’s Wood, London 8 July 1877 aged 74.