John Henry Blunt

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John Henry Blunt (25 August 1823 – 11 April 1884) was an English clergyman and scholar. Before going to university, he worked as a manufacturing chemist. He began studying at University College, Durham in 1850. He was ordained in 1852, earned his MA in 1855, and published The Atonement that same year. He held several church roles, including the vicarage of Kennington near Oxford in 1868, which he left in 1873 to take the crown living at Beverston in Gloucestershire. Durham gave him a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1882. He died suddenly in London on 11 April 1884 (Good Friday) and was buried in Battersea Cemetery. Blunt was a prolific writer in theology and church history. His works included an annotated edition of the Prayer Book (1867), History of the English Reformation (1868), Book of Church Law (1872), A Key to the Knowledge and Use of the Holy Bible (1873), and a Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology (1870). He also published Dictionary of Sects and Heresies (1874), an Annotated Bible (three volumes, 1878–1879), and a Cyclopaedia of Religion (1884).