Charles James Blomfield

Charles James Blomfield (May 29, 1786 - August 5, 1857) was a British theologian and classicist and bishop of the Church of England for 32 years. Blomfield was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and was educated at a gymnasium in Bury St Edmunds, refusing a scholarship at Eton College after a short stay there. Blomfield enrolled at Trinity College in Cambridge in 1804. At Cambridge, he was taught by John Hudson, a mathematician and cleric. Blomfield won Brown’s medals for Latin and Greek odes and Craven’s scholarship. Graduated from B.A. (3rd debater and 1st chancellor medal in classic) in 1808, M.A. in 1811, B.D. in 1818 D.D. (per lit. reg.) in 1820. Blomfield was elected to a scholarship to Trinity College in 1809. The first fruit of his scholarship was the publication of Prometheus Aeschylus in 1810; this was followed by the release of Septem against Thebes, Persians, Chefori and Agamemnon, Kallimahus and fragments of Sapphon, Sofron and Alkey.