Family and Education
b. 1615 /16 s. of Walter Blandford and ?Mary Sheppard (Shepherd) of Mere, Wilts. Wilts. Registers Marriages ed. Phillimore and Sadler, i. 16. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. matric. 1635; Wadham, Oxf. BA 1639, MA 1642, fell. 1644, DD 1660. unm. d. 9 July 1675; will 4 July 1675, pr. 28 Nov. 1676. TNA, PROB 11/352.
Offices Held
Chap. ord. 1660; clerk of the closet 1668 – 69; dean chapel royal 1669 – d.
Chap. to John Lovelace, 2nd Bar. Lovelace, 1648, to Sir Edward Hyde, later earl of Clarendon, 1660; rect. Southrop, Glos. 1645 – d.; Remenham, Berks. 1660, Witney, Oxon. 1665 – 71, Chinnor, Oxon. 1665;
Warden, Wadham, Oxf. 1659 – 65; univ. visitor Oxf. 1660;
Parlimentarian
Associated with: Melbury Abbas, Dorset; Oxf., Oxon; Hartlebury, Worcs.
Likenesses
oil on canvas, Wadham, Oxf.
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
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