9 MAY 1981, Page 18

Distinguished bishop

Sir: The Bishop of London cited by Mr Colin Brown (Letters, 25 April) was presumably Charles James (not William) Blomfield (bishop 1828-56). Equally distinguished as a classical scholar (editor of Callimachus, etc.) and as a vigorous prelate, he is commemorated in M.L. Clarke's Greek Studies in England, 1700 to 1830 and (amusingly) in Owen Chadwick's Victorian Church.

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