David Guy Blomfield MBE (11 July 1934 – 12 July 2016) was leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council, a writer, a book editor and a local historian.

[1] His parents were Valentine Blomfield, a British Army officer, and his wife, Gladys (née Lang), who had been a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at Richmond's Star and Garter Home in the First World War.

[3] He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and served in the Royal Artillery and the Oxfordshire Yeomanry.

[6] He was also a patron of the Kew Society[5] and a past chairman of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond.

[1] He lived in Kew, London[1] with his wife Caroline, with whom he had three children (two sons and a daughter).