William John Blew

BLEW, William John. b. Westminster, London, 13 April 1808; d. Westminster, 27 December 1894. Born at Westminster, London, he was educated at a school at Ealing run by a Dr George Nicholas, where a fellow-pupil was John Henry Newman*. He then went to Wadham College, Oxford (BA 1830, MA 1832) and took Holy Orders (deacon 1832, priest 1834), serving as curate of Nuthurst and Cocking, Sussex (1832-40) and curate of St Anne’s, Soho, London (1840-42). In 1842 he became the incumbent at St John’s, Milton, near Gravesend, resigning in 1850 after being criticized by his bishop for his Tractarian views and practices. Thereafter he devoted his life to liturgical scholarship and to translation from...