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Christopher Evelyn Blunt

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but, unlike his brothers, did not attend university. In 1924 he joined the banking house Higginson & Co. (later part of
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Blunt was born in London, the second son of the Reverend Arthur Stanley Vaughan Blunt and of Hilda Violet Blunt,
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from 1935 and its president from 1946 and 1950, and the president of the
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between 1956 and 1961. He was the general editor of the
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Blunt was a major numismatist. He was director of the
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Index

London
England
OBE
FBA
FSA
merchant banker
numismatist
Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt
Anthony Frederick Blunt
Marlborough College
Hill Samuel
World War II
British Expeditionary Force
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
mentioned in dispatches
Legion of Merit
colonel
British Numismatic Society
Royal Numismatic Society
Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles
Society of Antiquaries of London
FBA



Stewartby
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/39797
UK public library membership

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