John Henry Blunt (25 August 1823 in

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– 11 April 1884 in

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) was an

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Life

Before going to the

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in 1850, he was for some years engaged in business as a manufacturing

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. 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

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(1868), which he vacated in 1873 for the crown living of

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. In June 1882, his university made him a doctor of divinity. He died rather suddenly in London on 11 April 1884 (Good Friday), and was buried in Battersea cemetery.

Works

He became a voluminous writer in the fields of theology and ecclesiastical history, and had published among other works an annotated edition of the ''Prayer Book'' (1867), a ''History of the English Reformation'' (1868), a ''Book of Church Law'' (1872), as well as a ''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).
Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Rivingtons, 1903.

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* * * 1823 births 1884 deaths People from Chelsea, London English theologians 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of University College, Durham English male non-fiction writers {{Anglican-stub