Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

study of the early Fathers, 2 ed._ 1856 _v-xii_; _Quarterly Review civ_, 151–70 (1858); _Guardian 10 May 1882 pp._ 665–66; _Cambridge Chronicle 23 June 1855_. BLUNT, RICHARD. Ensign 3 Foot 31 Jany. 1787; lieut. col. 23 Aug. 1799 to 1814; colonel 66 Foot 25 March 1835 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Barnfield house, Southampton 25 Dec. 1859 aged 90. BLYTH, BENJAMIN HALL (_son of Robert Brittain Blyth of Edinburgh, iron merchant_). _b._ Edinburgh 14 July 1819; civil engineer at Edin. 1850 to death; engineer in chief to Great North of Scotland railway 1852; acted as adviser and engineer at various times to most of the principal railway companies in Scotland; constructed many important lines; extensively employed as a parliamentary engineer; A.I.C.E. 1844, M.I.C.E. 1851. _d._ North Berwick near Edin. 21 or 22 Aug. 1866. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi_, 556–60 (1867). BLYTH, EDWARD, _b._ London 23 Dec. 1810; a druggist at Tooting 1832; contributed to _Magazine of natural history_ from 1833; curator of museum of Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta Sep. 1841 to 1862; contributed to the _Indian Field_, _India sporting review_ and _Calcutta Review_; contributed to _Land and Water_ and the _Field_ under nom de plume of Zoophilus; one of the first zoologists of his time, and founder of the study of that science in India, _d._ 27 Dec. 1873. _Memoir prefixed to Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma by E. Blyth in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal extra number Aug. 1875, portrait._ BLYTHE, DAVID (_son of Charles Blythe of Yetholm, Roxburghshire, king of the gipsies who d. 1861_). _b._ Wooler, Northumberland 1795; king of the gipsies at Yetholm 1861 to death. _d._ 17 Feb.