Christopher Evelyn Blunt

Christopher Evelyn Blunt, OBE, FBA, FSA (16 July 1904 – 20 November 1987) was a British merchant banker and numismatist.

[1][2] Blunt was educated at Marlborough College but, unlike his brothers, did not attend university.

[2] In 1924 he joined the banking house Higginson & Co. (later part of Hill Samuel), becoming partner in 1947.

He was mentioned in dispatches in 1940, appointed OBE and Officer of the Legion of Merit in 1945.

[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) in 1936 and FBA in 1965.