Dr. John Marcus Blatchly MBE FSA (7 October 1932 – 3 September 2015) was a schoolmaster, author and noted historian of the county of Suffolk.
[1][2][3] The son of Alfred Ernest Blatchly and Edith Selina Giddings, he studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge and became a chemistry teacher.
[citation needed] A keen local historian, he also served as chairman of the Suffolk Records Society and the Ipswich Historic Churches Trust, and president of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology & History.
[4] Blatchly's heritage work included rescuing and cataloguing Ipswich's 16th-century library and leading efforts to erect a bronze statue of Cardinal Wolsey in the town.
Photographs by Blatchly are held at the Conway Library of the Courtauld Institute in London.