Blunt John James

Blunt, John James, born in 1794, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took a fellowship. After holding a rectory in Essex till 1839, he was appointed Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and died there in 1855, having refused the bishopric of Salisbury in the previous year. He was the author of several theological works, among which Undesigned Coincidences may be regarded as important.