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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.