BLOMEFIELD, Rev. Sir Thomas Eardley Wilmot, 3 Baronet. b. Peamore near Exeter 3 Aug. 1820; succeeded 30 June 1858, V. of All Saint’s Pontefract 1859–72; master of Archbishop Holgate’s hospital near Hemsworth 1872 to death. d. Holgate lodge, Pontefract 21 Nov. 1878.

BLOMEFIELD, Sir Thomas William, 2 Baronet. b. Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 24 March 1791; succeeded 24 Aug. 1822. d. Egremont lodge, Brighton 30 June 1858.

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.

BLOOMFIELD, John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2 Baron (eld. child of Benjamin Bloomfield, 1 Baron Bloomfield 1768–1846). b. 12 Nov. 1802; attaché at Vienna 16 Feb. 1818; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at St. Petersburgh 3 April 1844, at Berlin 28 April 1851, at Vienna 22 Nov. 1860 to 28 Oct. 1871 when he retired on a pension; succeeded 15 Aug. 1846; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851, G.C.B. 3 Sep. 1858, P.C. 17 Dec. 1860; created Baron Bloomfield of Ciamhaltha in the United Kingdom 7 Aug. 1871. (m. 4 Sep. 1845 Georgiana 16 and youngest child of 1 Baron Ravensworth, she was b. 13 April 1822). d. Ciamhaltha, Newport, Tipperary 17 Aug. 1879. Reminiscences of court and diplomatic life by Georgiana Baroness Bloomfield ii, 310 (1883), portrait.

BLOOMFIELD, Henry Keane. Ensign 59 Foot 30 Sep. 1813; lieut. col. 11 Foot 27 June 1845 to 1 April 1859 when placed on h.p.; colonel 64 Foot 20 Jany. 1867 to death; L.G. 13 Aug. 1868. d. 108 Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 11 Feb. 1870 aged 72.

BLOOMFIELD, Sir John (son of Patrick Bloomfield of Sligo). b. 1793; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 28 April 1810, colonel 28 Nov. 1854, colonel commandant 5 April 1866 to death; aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 June 1854 to 25 Sep. 1859; inspector general of artillery 1 May 1859 to 30 June 1864; general 26 Nov. 1876; K.C.B. 13 March 1867, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 108 Jermyn st. London 1 Aug. 1880.

BLOOMFIELD, Rev. Samuel Thomas. Educ. at Sid. Sus. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, D.D. 1829; V. of Bisbrooke, Rutland 1814 to death; hon. canon of Peterborough cath. 1854 to death; granted civil list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of Recensio synoptica annotationis sacræ, being a critical digest of the most important annotations on the New Testament 8 vols. 1826–28; Translation of Thucydides 3 vols. 1829; The Greek Testament with English notes 2 vols. 1832, 12 ed. 1870; A Greek and English lexicon to the New Testament 1840, 2 ed. 1845. d. Hone house, Wandsworth common near London 28 Sep. 1869 aged 85.

BLORE, Edward (eld. son of Thomas Blore of Derby, topographer 1764–1818). b. Derby 13 Sep. 1787; architect and artist; designed exterior of Abbotsford for Sir Walter Scott 1816; designed organ-screen and choir fittings of Peterborough cathedral; restored Glasgow cathedral and Merton college chapel; special architect to Wm. iv and Victoria; completed erection of Buckingham Palace for £100,000, 1837; architect at Westminster Abbey; declined honour of knighthood; F.S.A. 27 Nov. 1823; D.C.L. Oxford 1834; F.R.S. 10 June 1841; a founder of Royal Archæological Institute Dec. 1843; author of The monumental remains of noble and eminent persons comprising the sepulchral antiquities of Great Britain 1825. d. 4 Manchester sq. London 4 Sep. 1879. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. viii, 347–52 (1881); I.L.N. lxxv, 280 (1879), portrait.

BLORE, Rev. Edward William (elder son of the preceding). b. London 24 Jany. 1828; ed. at Eton 1842–47, member of the cricket eleven; began residence at Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1847, scholar 1849, fellow Oct. 1853; in the Cambridge eleven 1848–51; 37 wrangler 1851, B.A. 1851; assistant tutor of his college 1857, tutor 1862, senior tutor 1868–75, senior dean 1860–66; prime mover in restoration of Trin. coll. chapel, only important building in England founded by Queen Mary. d. Trinity college, Cambridge 24 June 1885. The little journal i, 77–88 (1884).

BLORE, Robert. Manufacturer of small porcelain biscuit figures in Bridge gate, Derby 1830; very clever in making pastes and glazes; an assistant at Mason’s factory at Lane Delph; superintended a pot-works at Middlesbrough until his death. d. about 1866.

BLOUNT, Sir Edward, 8 Baronet. b. Mawley hall, Cleobury Mortimer, Salop 3 March 1795; succeeded 31 Oct. 1803; sheriff of Worcestershire 1835. d. Mawley hall 28 April 1881.

BLOXAM, Rev. Andrew (4 son of Rev. Richard Rouse Bloxam, assistant master of Rugby school 38 years who d. 28 March 1840). b. Rugby 22 Sep. 1801; ed. at Rugby 1808–20 and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow of his college; naturalist on board the Blonde frigate (which conveyed bodies of King and Queen of Sandwich Islands to their native land) 1824–26; P.C. of Twycross, Leics. 1839–71; R. of Harborough Magna 1871 to death; wrote on conchology, ornithology and plants; author of A guide to Bradgate park with natural history of Charnwood Forest 1829. d. Harborough Magna 2 Feb. 1878. Midland Naturalist, April 1878 pp. 88–90.

Note.—A water-colour drawing by Turner in the National Gallery represents A. Bloxam and his five brothers attending the funeral of their uncle Sir T. Lawrence, R.A.

BLOXAM, Charles John. Admitted solicitor Trinity term 1821; practised in London to death, probably oldest solicitor in practice on the rolls; senior member of court of Clothworkers’ Company, served as master when the new hall was opened by Prince Albert 27 March 1860. d. 16 Bedford place, Russell sq. London 25 Feb. 1885 in 85 year.

BLOXAM, Rev. Richard Rowland (elder brother of Rev. A. Bloxam). b. Jany. 1798; ed. at Rugby and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1819; master of Guilsborough gr. sch. 1821–24; chaplain of Pembroke dockyard 1845; domestic chaplain to Earl Ferrers 1848; R. of Harlaston, Tamworth 1850 to death; author of A voyage to the Sandwich Islands in H.M.S. Blonde. d. Leamington 23 Jany. 1877.

BLOXAM, Thomas. b. London 1836; ed. at city of London school and King’s college; chemist to Industrial museum of Scotland 1860 to date when office was abolished; lecturer on chemistry at St. George’s hospital London; lecturer in experimental and natural science at Cheltenham college 1862 to death; F.C.S. 1859, F.G.S. 1869. d. London July 1872. Cheltenham College Mag. iii, 258–59 (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 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).

BLYTH, Edward, b. London 23 Dec. 1810; a druggist at Tooting 1832; contributed to Magazine of natural history from 1833; curator of museum of Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta Sep. 1841 to 1862; contributed to the Indian Field, India sporting review and Calcutta Review; contributed to Land and Water and the Field under nom de plume of Zoophilus; one of the first zoologists of his time, and founder of the study of that science in India, d. 27 Dec. 1873. Memoir prefixed to Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma by E. Blyth in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal extra number Aug. 1875, portrait.

BLYTHE, David (son of Charles Blythe of Yetholm, Roxburghshire, king of the gipsies who d. 1861). b. Wooler, Northumberland 1795; king of the gipsies at Yetholm 1861 to death. d. 17 Feb. 1883. bur. in Chirnside churchyard. David Blythe the gipsy king, a character sketch by Charles Stuart, M.D. 1883, portrait; All the year round vi, 69–72 (1861).

BLYTHE, John Dean (son of Peter Dean Blythe of Ashton-under-Lyne). b. Ashton-under-Lyne 12 April 1842; worked in a factory; reporter on a local paper; learned Latin, French and Spanish; edited a manuscript magazine circulated amongst members of a self-improvement society at Manchester; killed by accidental discharge of a revolver 5 Feb. 1869. A sketch of the life and a selection from the writings of J. D. Blythe 1870.

BOAG, John. b. Highgate in parish of Beith, Ayrshire 7 Jany. 1775; matric. at Univ. of Glasgow 1797; joined the body of independents or congregationalists who in 1812 formed themselves into Congregational Union of Scotland; held small charges in Isle of Man and Helensburgh; pastor in village of Blackburn, Linlithgowshire; author of A popular and complete English dictionary 2 vols. 1848; The imperial lexicon of the English language 2 vols. 1853, and of a number of pamphlets on questions of the day. d. Craigton house, Linlithgowshire 15 Sep. 1863.

BOAG, Sir Robert (son of the preceding). b. 22 Aug. 1809; alderman of Belfast; knighted at Dublin Castle 30 Jany. 1877. (m. 1834 Violet only dau. of John Stevens of Glasgow). d. Glenorchy house, Newington, Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1877.

BOASE, Charles William (3 son of Henry Boase 1763–1827, managing partner in banking house of Ransom, Morland and Co. Pall Mall, London). b. 6 Knightsbridge, London 8 June 1804; ed. at Helston gr. sch.; entered Dundee New Bank 1821, manager 1828; cashier of Dundee Banking company 13 March 1838, manager 1840 to 20 Feb. 1864 when it was merged in Royal bank of Scotland, managed the branch to 21 Dec. 1867 when he retired on a pension; secretary and treasurer of Watt Institution Dundee 1824–36, founded the museum to which he largely contributed; received freedom of Dundee 1 Sep. 1831 for his exertions in aiding to procure it a liberal constitution; one of the trustees elected by the creditors when town of Dundee became bankrupt 1842; a member of the Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite church 1836, erected a little chapel in Bell st. Dundee which the congregation used until 30 Nov. 1867 when church in Constitution road was opened; ordained to the priesthood Oct. 1836 and to the Episcopate Aug. 1851; had charge of the Evangelistic work throughout Scotland Dec. 1867 to death; author of Tithes and Offerings 1865; A century of banking in Dundee 1867; The Elijah ministry 1868; Notes on doctrine and ecclesiastical facts 1868; Physical a part of theological science, 2 ed. 1874. d. Albury, Surrey 7 June 1872. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 397–99; An account of the families of Boase or Bowes privately printed (1876) 13–14.

BOASE, George Clement (brother of the preceding). b. 127 Sloane St. Chelsea 25 Aug. 1810; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Queen’s coll. Cam. 1828–29; cashier of Dundee Banking company April 1840 to Feb. 1864; sub-manager of Dundee branch of Royal Bank of Scotland Feb. 1864 to 21 Dec. 1867 when he retired on a pension; a member of the Catholic Apostolic church 1836, ordained to the priesthood Oct. 1836, had charge of the church at Brighton 1868 to death; author of To husbands, fathers and brothers specially those of the labouring classes being a warning against prevailing delusions by a Brother [G. C. Boase] 1848; The restoration of Apostles 1867; Thoughts and memories in verse by G. C. B[oase] 1876. d. Fairlie house, Bridge of Allan near Stirling 23 July 1880. An account of the families of Boase 15–16.

BOASE, Henry Samuel (brother of the preceding). b. 6 Knightsbridge, London 2 Sep. 1799; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch.; studied chemistry in Dublin 1815–17 and medicine in Univ. of Edin. 1817–21, M.D. 1821; sec. to Royal Geological Society of Cornwall at Penzance 1822 to 1829; collected from every part of Cornwall specimens of the rocks 1829–31 which were deposited in Geological Museum at Penzance; a partner in the Penzance Union Bank 1823 to April 1838 when bank was dissolved; lived in Burton crescent, London 1837–38; F.R.S. 4 May 1837; managing partner in firm of Turnbull Brothers of the Claverhouse Bleachfield, Dundee June 1838, this firm became Boase & Co.; took out a patent for ‘improvements in the process of drying organic substances’ 17 July 1855; author of A treatise on primary geology 1834; The philosophy of nature 1860; An essay on human nature 1865; The second Adam, the seed of the woman. Anon. 1876; A few words on evolution and creation 1883; wrote a minute geological account of each parish in The parochial history of Cornwall by D. Gilbert 4 vols. 1837. d. 5 Magdalen place, Dundee 5 May 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. v, 282–3 (1886); An account of the families of Boase 8–10.

BOATE, Edward Wellington (eld. son of George Boate of Waterford). Edited the Waterford Chronicle and Wexford Guardian; a reporter for the Times in the House of Commons; went to New York; worked on the Irish American, Evening Express, and other journals; joined the 42nd New York Volunteers 1863; taken prisoner at battle of Bristo station and sent to Belle Island; comr. and chairman of delegation of 95,000 men to negotiate with Abraham Lincoln for an exchange of prisoners; a reporter on the Sunday Mercury to Sep. 1871. d. King’s county hospital, Flatbush, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia 4 Oct. 1871 aged 49.

BOAZ, Thomas (eld. son of Richard Boaz of Scarborough, ship-carpenter). b.