English theologian; b. at Newcastle-under-Lyme (15 m. n.n.w. of Stafford), Staffordshire, 1794; d. at Cambridge June 18, 1856. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A., and fellow, 1816; M.A., 1819; B.D., 1826); traveled in Italy and Sicily; became curate to Reginald Heber at Hodnet, Shropshire, in 1821; rector of Great Oakley, Essex, 1834; Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge 1839. He wrote many books and contributed much to the periodical press; some of his works have passed through many editions. They include A Sketch of the Reformation in England (London, 1832); Undesigned Coincidences in the Writings both of the Old Testament and New Testament an Argument for their Veracity (1847); A History of the Christian Church during the First Three Centuries (1856); The Duties of the Parish Priest (1856); Two Introductory Lectures on the Study of the Early Fathers (with memoir, Cambridge, 1856).

The Acquirements and Principal Obligations and Duties of the Parish Priest
Being a Series of Lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge to the Students in Divinity.
London: John Murray, 1856.

John Henry Blunt

John Henry Blunt (born 1823 in Chelsea; died April 11, 1884 in London) was an English divine.

Before going to the university of Durham in 1850, he was for some years engaged in business as a manufacturing chemist. He was ordained in 1852 and took his M.A. degree in 1855, publishing in the same year a work on The Atonement. He held in succession several preferments, among them the vicarage of Kennington near Oxford (1868), which he vacated in 1873 for the crown living of Beverston in Gloucestershire. He had already gained some reputation as an industrious theologian, and had published among other works an annotated edition of the Prayer Book (1867), a History of the English Reformation (1868), and a Book of Church Law (1872), as well as a useful Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology (1870). The continuation of these labors was seen in a Dictionary of Sects and Heresies (1874), an Annotated Bible (3 vols., 1878-1879), and a Cyclopaedia of Religion (1884), and received recognition in the shape of the D.D. degree bestowed on him in 1882.

The Annotated Book of Common Prayer
Being an Historical, Ritual, and Theological Commentary on the Devotional System of the Church of England.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1895.

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