Walter Blandford

Walter Blandford (1616 in Melbury Abbas, Dorset, England – 1675) was an English academic and bishop.

[2] He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1662,[3] and succeeded in establishing a degree of calm after the turbulence that had accompanied the Restoration of 1660.

He served as chaplain to Sir Edward Hyde, later the Earl of Clarendon and highly influential statesman.

He was also one of the bishops brought into the household of Hyde's daughter, Anne, Duchess of York.

Following in this position George Morley, Blandford had no more success than others in heading off the Duchess's ultimate conversion to Catholicism.