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 Fact|date=February 2007, 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.

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*1911