Peter Blundell

Peter Blundell

Peter Blundell (c. 1520 - 1601) was a prosperous clothier, trading between Tiverton and London. He died in April 1601, never having married and with no known issue [ http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Tiverton/BlundellsBenefactors.html ] . On his death, he left over £32,000 cash to fellow clothiers and their families, his employees, created several charitable trusts, and gave £2400 to build Blundell's School, to be a free grammar school. [Joyce Youings, ‘Blundell, Peter (c. 1520–1601)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2714 accessed 10 Oct 2007] ]

Blundell also left £2000 in his will for the endowment of six scholars from The School in Divinity at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; arrangements were made for Blundell Scholars to enter Balliol and Sidney Sussex colleges respectively [ [http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=z_0GAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage Donations of Peter Blundell - Reproduction of Will] ] .

He was buried on the 9th May 1601 at St Michael Paternoster Royal in London.

Blundell Park, the current ground of Grimsby Town Football Club since 1899, is named after Peter Blundell whose money enabled Sidney Sussex College to buy the land in 1616.

References

*cite book |last= Blundell |first= Joseph Hight |coauthors= Hight Blundell|title= The Blundells of Bedforshire and Northamptonshire |publisher=by subscription of family members |year= 1912|

External links

*http://www.blundells.org/admin/school_history.htm
*http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/history/miscellany/blundell/index.asp
*http://www.grimsby-townfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/History/0,,10417~67231,00.html


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