Editing Charles James Blomfield (section)

==Personal life==
Blomfield  married Anna Maria Heath on 6 November 1810 at [[Hemblington]], Norfolk and they had six children: 
*Anna Maria Blomfield (1811–1812)
*Charles James Blomfield (1813–1813)
*Maria Blomfield (1814–1884)
*Charles William Blomfield (1815–1815)
*Edward Thomas Blomfield (1816–1822)
*Charles James Blomfield (1818–1818)
Anna Maria died on 16 February 1818 aged 33 at [[Hildersham]], Cambridgeshire.

Blomfield then married Dorothy (née Cox, widow of Thomas Kent of Hildersham, Cambridgeshire) on 17 December 1819 at [[St George's, Hanover Square|St George, Hanover Square]], London, and they had eleven children: 
*Charles James Blomfield (1820–1822)
*Mary Frances Blomfield (1821–1869)
*Frederick George "Fred" Blomfield (1823–1879), rector
*Isabella "Isy" Blomfield (1824–1879), who married her cousin [[George John Blomfield]], vicar of [[Holy Trinity Church, Dartford]], and rector of [[Aldington, Kent]]
*Henry John Blomfield (1825–1900), Royal Navy
*Francis "Frank" Blomfield (1827–1860), drowned in the [[SS Northerner]] steamer disaster off the Californian coast
*[[Arthur William Blomfield]] (1829–1899), architect
*[[Lucy Elizabeth Bather|Lucy Elizabeth Blomfield]] (1830–1864),<ref>{{ws|[[s:Bather, Lucy Elizabeth (DNB00)|''Dictionary of National Biography'']]|ps=no}} has 1836 for Lucy's date of birth</ref> children's author "Aunt Lucy"
*Charles James Blomfield (1831–1915), emigrated to Canada in 1858
*[[Alfred Blomfield]] (1833–1894), bishop of Colchester
*Dorothy Hester "Dora" Blomfield (1836–1886)

Dorothy also had one son from her first marriage, Thomas Fassett Kent (1817–1871), barrister (he was father of the poet Armine Thomas Kent).

The Blomfield household was larger than any other family of a Bishop of London, with eleven surviving children living in the palace. He had 49 grandchildren and another six step-grandchildren, including the army officer [[Charles James Blomfield (Indian Army officer)|Major-General Charles James Blomfield]] (1855−1928), the architect Sir [[Reginald Blomfield]] (1856–1942), the poet and hymn writer [[Dorothy Gurney]] (née Blomfield) (1858–1932) and the palaeontologist, geologist and malacologist [[Francis Arthur Bather]] (1863–1934). A great grandchild was the civil servant Sir [[Wolseley Haig|Thomas Wolseley Haig]].