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Adm. pens. (age 17) at CAIUS, 1798. [Eldest] s. of the Rev. Barrington Blomfield (next), of Great Thurlow, Suffolk (and Mary, dau, of Richard Moore, Esq., of Kentwell Hall, Long Melford). B. 1780, at Haverhill. School, Bury St Edmunds (Mr Becher). ' Matric. Michs. 1798; B.A. 1802. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Dec. 19, 1802; priest (London) Aug. 12, 1804. V. of Gestingthorpe, Essex, 1804-49. V. of Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, 1837-49. P.C. of Stocke-by-Clare, 1807-15. Married, 1814, Sophia, dau. of Westrop Major (or Mayer), of Kedington, Suffolk, and had one daughter. Died Oct. 30, 1849, at Gestingthorpe. The cures of this man and the next are subject to much confusion. Brother of Thomas B. (1798) and half-brother of William H. (1825). (Bury St Edmunds Sch. Reg.; Venn, II. 132; G. Mag., 1850, I. 102; Rev. W. H. Turnbull.)