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BLOSSET, ---; b.; in school list 1754.

BLOSSET, SIR ROBERT HENRY, eldest son of Rev. Henry Peckwell DD, Rector of Bloxholm with Digby, Lincs., and Bella, dau. of Maj. Solomon Stephen Blosset, Shinfield, Berks.; b. 1776; adm. 19 Oct 1785; in school list Dec 1788; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1792, Canoneer Student 24 Dec 1794 - 25 Jun 1806, void; BA 1796; MA 1799; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Oct 1795, called to bar 16 Jun 1801; Serjeant-at-law 15 May 1809; assumed surname of Blosset in lieu of Peckwell, 4 May 1811; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Bengal, from 1821; knighted 19 Apr 1822; author, Cases on Controverted Elections in the Second Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1805-6; d. unm. at Calcutta 1 Feb 1823. DNB.

Blount, Arthur Stanley, son of Frank Blount, of Clapham Common, Surrey, by Mary Frances, daughter of William Hull, of Edinburgh; b. Dec. 14, 1886; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (A); left July 1904; served in France with the Canadian Overseas Force 1915-8; M. M. Nov. 19, 1917; d. March 21, 1926.

Blount, Cecil, brother of Arthur Stanley Blount (q.v.); b. April 18, 1892; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (A); left July 1907; a bank accountant at Nottingham; served with the London Scottish 2/14th London Regt. Feb.- Aug. 1915; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. Dorset Regt. Dec. 10, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; served in Mesopotamia 1916, India and Burma 1917-9; m. March 18, 1916, Hilda, daughter of William Turner.

BLOUNT, C. H.; b.; in school lists May and Oct 1803.

Blount, Maurice Bertie, twin brother of Arthur Stanley Blount (q.v.); b. Dec. 14, 1886; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (A); left July 1904; served in Great War I as trooper in King Edward's Horse, Canadian Overseas Force; invalided Jan. 1917.

BLOUNT, WILLIAM, son of Anthony Blount; b.; adm.; KS 1667; d. 6 May 1670, aged 18; buried in North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

Blow, Sydney Luke Jellings, son of Jellings Blow, of Chelsea, by Joanna Antonelli, Denham; b. March 6, 1878; adm. May 8, 1891 (H); left March 1893; an actor and playwright; first appeared on the stage in The Prisoner of Zenda at Stockport in 1896; author of Lord Richard in the Pantry, and other plays; m. Hilda Trevelyan, actress, the original Wendy in Peter Pan; d. May 31, 1961.

BLOWER, ROBERT, of Oxfordshire; b.; adm.; QS; a contributor to the collection of verses written by the QSS on the death of Lady Elizabeth Cecil, 1597 (Salisbury MSS, Hatfield House), and to the congratulatory verses to Queen Elizabeth, 1597 (Royal MSS, British Museum); Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 Apr 1599, aged 15; BA 1602; MA 1605.

BLOXAM, CHARLES HENRY; b. 25 Jan 1812; adm. 13 Jan 1824. [Presumably brother of, or close kin to, George Frederick Bloxam, adm. next day] [Were they sons of Charles John Bloxam, solicitor, Lincoln’s Inn Fields ?]