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Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922, English poet and political writer. After retiring c.1872 from the diplomatic service, he began a career of travel and political crusading. He wrote several works championing Indian, Egyptian, and Irish independence. His poetry, noted for its emotional force, includes The Love Sonnets of Proteus (1880) and The Wind and the Whirlwind (1883).

See his diaries (1919-20).

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Blunt, Roy D.
Blunt, Roy D., 1950-, U.S. politician, b. Niangua, Mo., grad. Southwest Baptist Univ. (B.A. 1970), Southwest Missouri State Univ. (M.A. 1972). A Missouri county clerk and elections offficer from 1973 to 1984, he later served as state secretary of state (1984-93 and president of Southwest Baptist Univ. (1993-96). Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 1996, he became majority whip in 1999 and acting majority leader in 2005 when Tom DeLay stepped aside temporarily because he had been indicted. After DeLay made his resignation permanent, Blunt failed to win the majority leader's post, but he remained the Republican whip.
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Blunt, James Gilpatrick
Blunt, James Gilpatrick, 1826-81, American physician and Union general in the Civil War, b. Hancock co., Maine. He practiced medicine in Ohio and later in Kansas, where he became associated with John Brown in antislavery activity. Blunt served in the Union forces throughout the war and was made a brigadier general in 1862. The border region of Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas was the principal scene of his activity. He was victorious at Old Fort Wayne (Oct., 1862) and at Cane Hill (Nov., 1862). With Gen. F. J. Herron, he drove back T. C. Hindman at Prairie Grove (Dec., 1862). In 1864, Blunt was instrumental in repulsing Sterling Price's raid in Missouri.
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Blunt, George William
Blunt, George William, 1802-78, American hydrographer; son of Edmund March Blunt, a pioneer publisher of nautical books and charts in Newburyport, Mass. He established (1821) himself in a similar business in New York and published the numerous editions of Bowditch's Navigator, Blunt's Coast Pilot, and nautical charts of the world. The copperplates of these maps and the copyrights to the Navigator and Coast Pilot were later purchased by the U.S. Hydrographic Office when that bureau began its publication work. From 1833 until his death, Blunt was first assistant in the U.S. Coast Survey. He also served for 32 years on the Board of Pilot Commissioners and did much to put through needed reforms in the U.S. Lighthouse Service.
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Blunt, Anthony Frederick
Blunt, Anthony Frederick, 1907-83, English art historian and Soviet spy, grad. Cambridge. Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art after 1947 and professor of the history of art at the Univ. of London, Blunt also served from 1952 as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and was one of the most powerful figures in the mid-20th-century art world. In 1964 he was exposed as a member of a Soviet spy ring that included Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, and Kim Philby. However, Blunt's activities did not come to official attention until 1979, when he was disgraced and stripped of his knighthood and other honors. His numerous writings include François Mansart and the Origins of French Classical Architecture (1941); The Drawings of Poussin (with Walter Friedlaender, 3 vol., 1939-53); Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700 (1953); The Art of William Blake (1959); The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin (1968); Picasso's Guernica (1968); and Sicilian Baroque (1968). He also wrote several catalogs of the drawings at Windsor Castle.

See biography by M. Carter (2002); J. Costello, Mask of Treachery (1988); B. Penrose and S. Freeman, Conspiracy of Silence (1987); bibliography, ed. by E. Scheerer, in Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art (1967).

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Blunt, Anthony (Frederick)

(born Sept. 26, 1907, Bournemouth, Hampshire, Eng.—died March 26, 1983, London) British art historian and spy. He began his espionage for the Soviet Union after meeting Guy Burgess at the University of Cambridge in the 1930s. From 1937 Blunt had a brilliant career as an art historian, publishing scores of scholarly works that largely established art history in Britain. In World War II he served in British military intelligence and also gave secret information to the Soviets. In 1945 he was appointed surveyor of the king's (later queen's) pictures, and in 1947 he became director of the prestigious Courtauld Institute. He ceased active intelligence work but in 1951 arranged for the escape of Burgess and Donald Maclean (1913–1983) from Britain. In 1964, after the defection of Kim Philby, Blunt was confronted by British authorities and secretly confessed his Soviet connections. When his past as the “fourth man” in the spy ring was made public in 1979, he was stripped of the knighthood awarded him in 1956.

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