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March 189G; K.C.I.E., 1897; retired, 1898; Member of the London Country Council for the Holborn Division 1901-1907. Address: The Abbey, Abingdon.
Blomfield, Mojar-Gen. Charles James, C.B. 1904; D.S.O. 1898; b. Bow, Devonshire, 1855: 2nd s. of Rev. George J Blomfield and Isabel, d. of late Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London; m. 1881, Henriette. d. of late Major E. Briscoe, 20th Foot; two s. Educ.: Haileybury; R.M.C. Sandhurst. Sub-Lieut, in 20th Foot, 1875; Lieut, in 20th Foot. 1875; captain in Lancashire Fusiliers, 1881; Major, 1890, Lieut-col., 1898; Adj. Lanc. Fusiliers, 1880-83; Acting Military Secretary to H.E. Commander-in-chief, Bombay Army, 1891; D.A.A.G. Bombay, 1892-97; A.A.G. Bombay, 1897; Soudan Expedition, 1898; S. African War, 1889-1902; with Ladysmith relief force (severely wounded at Spion Kop) Colonel on Staff to command District, 1900, and in command of columns in S.E. Transval and on Zululand border; commanded Harrismith and Natal Sub-District, 1902-1906. Recreations: shooting and golf. Club: Army and Navy .
Blood, General Sir Bindon, G.C.B., 1909; K.C.B., 1896; b. 1842; e.s. of late W. B. Blood, Cranaher, Co. Clare; m. 1883, Charlotte, d. of late Sir Auckland Colvin, K.C.S.I.; Entered R.E. 1860; served Jowaki Expedition (medal and clasp), 1877-78; Zulu War 1879, Afghan War 1880; Egyptian Campaign 1882; Brig-Gen. and Chief Staff Officer, Chitral Relief Force, 1895; Major-General commanding Malakland Field Force and Buner Field Force (two clasps), 1897-98; Lieut-General commanding troops in eastern Transvaal, 1901; retired 1907. Address: 183, St. James’s Court, Buckingham Gate, S.W. Clubs: Naval and Military, Marlborough.
Bloomfield, Maurice, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, Johns Hopkins University b. Bielitz, Austria, 1855; Educ.; Chicago University; Furman University, South Carolina, Yale University; Johns Hopkins University, Furman University; Edited for the first time from the original Sanskrit Manuscripts, the Grihyasamgraha of Gobhilaputra (Leipsic, 1881), and the Sutra of Kaucika (New Haven, 1899); translated the Atharva-Veda in the Sacred Books of the East (edited by Max Müller); author of the Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha-Brahmana (Strassburg 1899); joint editor (with Professor Richard Garbe of the University of Tubingen) of the chromo-photographic reproduction of The Kashmirian Atharva-Veda, the so-called Paippalada, 1900; author of Cerberus, The Dog of Hades. 1905; A Concordance of the Vedas (Harvard Oriental Series), 1907; Religion of the Veda, 1907; contributor to numerous learned journals and reviews on subjects connected with the history, religion, mythology, and literature of Ancient India; on Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Comparative Grammar; on Ethnology avid Science of Religions; Vice-President and President of the American Oriental Society, 1905-1910; Membcr of the American Philological Association: German Oriental Society; American Philosophical Society; Foreign Member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Prague; Hon. Member Finno-Ugrian Society of Helsingsfors; Hardy prize of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Munich
