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 1855. _Rev. J. J. Blunt’s Two introductory lectures on the study of the early Fathers, 2 ed._ 1856 _v-xii_; _Quarterly Review civ_, 151–70 (1858); _Guardian 10 May 1882 pp._ 665–66; _Cambridge Chronicle 23 June 1855_. BLUNT, RICHARD. Ensign 3 Foot 31 Jany. 1787; lieut. col. 23 Aug. 1799 to 1814; colonel 66 Foot 25 March 1835 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Barnfield house, Southampton 25 Dec. 1859 aged 90. BLYTH, BENJAMIN HALL (_son of Robert Brittain Blyth of Edinburgh, iron merchant_). _b._ Edinburgh 14 July 1819; civil engineer at Edin. 1850 to death; engineer in chief to Great North of Scotland railway 1852; acted as adviser and engineer at various times to most of the principal railway companies in Scotland; constructed many important lines; extensively employed as a parliamentary engineer; A.I.C.E. 1844, M.I.C.E. 1851. _d._ North Berwick near Edin. 21 or 22 Aug. 1866. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi_, 556–60 (1867).