Alfred Blomfield

Alfred Blomfield[1] (31 August 1833[2] – 5 November 1894)[3][4] was an Anglican bishop[5] in the last decades of the 19th century.

Alfred Blomfield
Bishop of Colchester
Diocese	Diocese of St Albans
In office	1882–1894
Successor	Henry Johnson
Other posts	Archdeacon of Essex (1878–1882) Archdeacon of Colchester (1882–1894)
Orders
Ordination	1858 (priest)
Consecration	1882 by Archibald Tait
Personal details
Born	(1833-08-31)31 August 1833 Fulham, Middlesex, England
Died	5 November 1894(1894-11-05) (aged 61) Brentwood, Essex, England
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford All Souls College, Oxford

Alfred was the son of Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London,[6] and brother of architect Arthur Blomfield and children’s writer Lucy Elizabeth Bather. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford before being awarded a Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1855 and his Oxford Master of Arts (MA Oxon) in 1857.[2] From 1857, he was a Curate at Kidderminster, then its Vicar,[7] having been ordained priest in 1858[2] (and presumably deacon the previous year).

After this, he held further incumbencies in Stepney, Islington, and Barking, before becoming Archdeacon of Essex in the Diocese of St Albans (1878–1882).[7] From there he moved to become Archdeacon of Colchester in the same diocese, and at the same time the first Bishop of Colchester (a suffragan bishop) in over 200 years, for twelve years[8] until 1894. He was ordained (consecrated) a bishop (on which day he took up the See of Colchester) by Archibald Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 24 June 1882 at St Albans Cathedral.[2] He died in post, in Brentwood, Essex;[3] he had become a Doctor of Divinity honoris causa (DD) by his university days prior to his consecration.[2]