Personal Life
He married Dorothy (née Cox, widow of Thomas Kent of Hildersham, Cambridgeshire) on 17 December 1819 at St George, Hanover Square, London and they had the following known children: Mary Frances (1821), Frederick George (1823), Isabella (1824), Henry John (1826), Francis (1826), Lucy Elizabeth (1830), Charles James (1831) and Dorothy Hester (1836).
He was also the father of the architect Sir Arthur Blomfield (born 1829) and of the Rt Revd Alfred Blomfield, Bishop of Colchester (born 1833).
Dorothy also had one son from her first marriage, Thomas Fassett Kent who was born in 1817 in Ellough, Suffolk.
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