Samuel Thomas Bloomfield (19 January 1783 – 28 September 1869) was an English clergyman and Biblical textual critic. His ''Greek New Testament'' was widely used in England and the United States.

Life

His surname was also spelled Blomfield or Blumfield. He was the son of Samuel Blomfield of Boston, Lincolnshire, and was educated at Wisbech and

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, where he was a pensioner from 29 June 1804. He matriculated in 1806, and graduate B.A. in 1808, M.A. in 1811, and

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in 1829. He was ordained as a priest of the Church of England in December 1808 and was vicar of

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, from 1814 to 1869. From 1847 Bloomfield received an annual pension from the

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"in consideration of his services and acquirements as a scholar and divine".''Literature and the Pension List. An investigation conducted for the Committee of the Incorporated Society of Authors''

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(1889), page 19 He died at Holme House,

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Works

Bloomfield published ''Recensio Synoptica'', and doctrinal Annotations on the New Testament (in 8 volumes, 1826). He also edited a Greek and English lexicon to the New Testament, revised and enlarged from Robinson's lexicon (1829); and a translation of Thucydides (3 volumes, 1829).
''The Greek New Testament''
Philadelphia 1854 *
''Recensio Synoptica Annotationis Sacrae'' (1826-1828)

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* 1783 births 1869 deaths 19th-century English writers British biblical scholars Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests People from Boston, Lincolnshire People from Rutland {{England-academic-bio-stub