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.