Introduction

Biography

Edwin was the son of George Tho­mas Lea­ton-Blen­kin­sopp and Har­rie­t Coll­ing­wood.

He was edu­cat­ed at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege, Dur­ham (BA 1839, MA 1842).

Taking Ho­ly Or­ders, he be­came cur­ate of Orms­kirk, Lan­ca­shire (1844); in­cum­bent of St. James’, Lath­om, Lan­ca­shire (1851); chap­lain to the Eng­lish ar­my in Tür­ki­ye (1855); at Al­giers (1859); and at the For­ti­fi­ca­tions of Ports­mouth (1862); and rec­tor of Spring­thorpe, Lin­coln­shire (1863).

Works

Leaton-Blen­kin­sopp con­trib­ut­ed nu­mer­ous pa­pers to pe­ri­od­ic­als. His orig­in­al hymns, and trans­la­tions from the La­tin, ap­peared in Ly­ra Mes­si­an­ica, 1864; Ly­ra Mys­ti­ca, 1865; and The Peo­ple’s Hym­nal, 1867.

His other works in­clude:

• Christian Tem­per­ance; a Ser­mon for Lent (Lon­don: F. & J. Riv­ing­ton, 1846)
• Coffee-Plant­ing in Cey­lon (Lon­don: Tay­lor & Fran­cis, 1861) (book shows its au­thor as Ali­quis, which is Latin for some­one.
• The Doc­trine of De­velop­ment in the Bi­ble and in the Church, 1869
• The Four Great Re­for­ma­tion Move­ments in the Six­teenth, Se­ven­teenth, Eight­eenth, and Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ries (Eng­lish Church Un­ion: 1871)
• Catholic and Pro­test­ant (Stu­dies in Mo­dern Prob­lems), 1874

Leaton-Blenkinsopp oft­en signed his work with the ini­tials E. C. L.