Thomas Porter Blunt
1842–1929
Pharmaceutical chemist. BA, Oxford, 1864. Registered as a chemist and druggist in 1868, having been in business before that date. Registered as a pharmaceutical chemist in 1878, having taking the major examination of the Pharmaceutical Society in 1877. In business with his father, Thomas Blunt, at Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury. Public analyst for Shropshire, Montgomery, and Merioneth; responsible for the botanical collection at Shropshire Museum.
Sources
Alum. Oxon.
Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/1873/7/7)
Deirdre Haxton, personal communication
Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, with Bath, Bristol, Herefordshire, and Shropshire 1870
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Shrewsbury Chronicle, 15 February 1929.
Bibliography
Alum. Oxon.: Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1886: … with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the university. Alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated by Joseph Foster. 8 vols. London and Oxford: Parker & Co. 1887–91.
Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, with Bath, Bristol, Herefordshire, and Shropshire: Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, with Bath, Bristol, Herefordshire, and Shropshire. Post Office directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and the City of Bristol. Post Office directory of Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Gloucestershire, with the City of Bristol. London: Kelly & Co. 1856–79.
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