Name Richard Blakeney | Role Writer | |
Died 1884, Bridlington, United Kingdom Books Popery in Its Social Aspect V2: Being a Complete Exposure of the Immorality and Intolerance of Romanism Education Trinity College, Dublin, University of Edinburgh |
Richard Paul Blakeney (1820–1884) was an Irish-born religious writer and cleric.
Blakeney was descended from an old Norfolk family, which had removed to Ireland before his birth. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1842, taking high honours in theology. In 1852 he proceeded LL.B. and LL.D. He became curate of St. Paul's, Nottingham, in 1843, vicar of Hyson Green, Nottinghamshire, in 1844, vicar of Christ Church, Claughton, Birkenhead, in January 1852, vicar of Bridlington in 1874, rural dean of Bridlington in 1876, and canon of York in 1882.
The university of Edinburgh conferred on him the degree of D.D. in 1868. Blakeney died at Bridlington on 31 December 1884. He was well known as a vigorous champion of evangelical doctrines in the Church of England, and was the author of a large number of controversial books and tracts, which attained a wide circulation.