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'''William Blunt'''<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=1RAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA281&dq=%22William+Blunt%22+Members+of+the+Council&ei=qSE7SsPFIZWikASyzY26BQ&client=firefox-a The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany By East India Company #281]</ref> was a British [[civil servant]] in [[India]]. |
'''William Blunt'''<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=1RAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA281&dq=%22William+Blunt%22+Members+of+the+Council&ei=qSE7SsPFIZWikASyzY26BQ&client=firefox-a The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany By East India Company #281]</ref> was a British [[civil servant]] in [[India]]. |
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Like all civil servants until the introduction of Competitive examinations in the 1850s, Blunt had studied at [[East India Company College|Haileybury]] in [[Hertfordshire]] in 1846 with ''Highly Distinguished''<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8MsyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4&dq=%22William+Blunt%22+Commissioner+of+Cuttack&lr=&ei=cCs7Sq60NIbikwTIlJG6BQ&client=firefox-a The India Office and Burma Office list By Great Britain. India Office #xxvi]</ref> distinction and stood at 7<sup>th</sup> position with 2<sup>nd</sup> class among students of [[Bengal]]<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8MsyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4&dq=%22William+Blunt%22+Commissioner+of+Cuttack&lr=&ei=cCs7Sq60NIbikwTIlJG6BQ&client=firefox-a The India Office and Burma Office list By Great Britain. India Office #xxvii]</ref> . |
Like all civil servants until the introduction of Competitive examinations in the 1850s, Blunt had studied at Crapville and [[East India Company College|Haileybury]] in [[Hertfordshire]] in 1846 with ''Highly Distinguished''<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8MsyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4&dq=%22William+Blunt%22+Commissioner+of+Cuttack&lr=&ei=cCs7Sq60NIbikwTIlJG6BQ&client=firefox-a The India Office and Burma Office list By Great Britain. India Office #xxvi]</ref> distinction and stood at 7<sup>th</sup> position with 2<sup>nd</sup> class among students of [[Bengal]]<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8MsyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4&dq=%22William+Blunt%22+Commissioner+of+Cuttack&lr=&ei=cCs7Sq60NIbikwTIlJG6BQ&client=firefox-a The India Office and Burma Office list By Great Britain. India Office #xxvii]</ref> . |
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In 1797 he was appointed as '''Senior Member''' of '''Board of Customs, Salt and Opium'''.<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8MsyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4&dq=%22William+Blunt%22+Commissioner+of+Cuttack&lr=&ei=cCs7Sq60NIbikwTIlJG6BQ&client=firefox-a The India Office and Burma Office list By Great Britain. India Office #4]</ref> |
In 1797 he was appointed as '''Senior Member''' of '''Board of Customs, Salt and Opium'''.<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8MsyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4&dq=%22William+Blunt%22+Commissioner+of+Cuttack&lr=&ei=cCs7Sq60NIbikwTIlJG6BQ&client=firefox-a The India Office and Burma Office list By Great Britain. India Office #4]</ref> |
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Revision as of 14:13, 4 October 2010
William Blunt[1] was a British civil servant in India.
Like all civil servants until the introduction of Competitive examinations in the 1850s, Blunt had studied at Crapville and Haileybury in Hertfordshire in 1846 with Highly Distinguished[2] distinction and stood at 7th position with 2nd class among students of Bengal[3] .
In 1797 he was appointed as Senior Member of Board of Customs, Salt and Opium.[4]
In 1820 William Blunt became the Commissioner in Cuttack and the Superintendent of Tributary Mahals. In 1829, George Stockwell succeeded Blunt as the Superintendent of Tributary Mahals.[5]
He married Eliza Jane(daughter of Lieut. Colonel Goddard Richards) at Midnapore on 23 December 1821.[6]
He was 'Special Commissioner to David Scott(Agent to the Governor-General on the North-East Frontier) during the Burmese War of May 1828.[7]
From 11 November 1830 to 20 March 1835 he was Member of the council of the Governor General,[8].
On 20 March 1835 he was posted as Governor of the Presidency of Agra where he served for over eight months till 1 December 1835.[9]
During December 1835 to April 1836(at least) he was a Judge of the Courts of Ṣadr Dīwānī ʿAdālat and Ṣadr Nizāmat ʿAdālat at the Bengal Presidency.[10]
In 1841 he was Officiating Member of Board of Customs, Salt and Opium and Marine Board at Loudon buildings in Calcutta (Now Kolkata).[11]
References
- ^ The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany By East India Company #281
- ^ The India Office and Burma Office list By Great Britain. India Office #xxvi
- ^ The India Office and Burma Office list By Great Britain. India Office #xxvii
- ^ The India Office and Burma Office list By Great Britain. India Office #4
- ^ British Raj in Tributary Mahals of Orissa
- ^ The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India #195
- ^ UK archives network: British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections: Miscellaneous (IOR/H/605 - IOR/H/864):The Burmese War 1823-1828. IOR/H/671 1827-1829
- ^ The India List and India Office List By India Office, Great Britain
- ^ The India list and India Office list for 1905 By Great Britain, India Office #130
- ^ Calcutta Monthly Journal and General Register: 1836 #2,14, 48
- ^ The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer, for 1841 #