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Walter Aston Edward Blount ( 7 February 1807 – 9 February 1894 ), Esq ., FSA was a long-serving Officer Of Arms at the College Of Arms in London . He was born the eldest son of Edward Blount. Edward was the third, but second surving, son of Sir Walter Blount, Sixth Baronet of Sodington. Walter Blount began his heraldic career when he was made , 25 of which had been allowed to his family at the 1634 Visitation of Worcester. Blount was promoted to the office of Norroy King Of Arms in 1859. He held this position until his promotion to the post of Clarenceux King Of Arms in 1882. Contemporary evidence shows him to have been an inactive officer of arms. At the Earl Marshal's enquiry into the College of Arms in 1869, he admitted that he did "very little indeed" since becoming a King Of Arms and even when a Herald "never very much." He died in 1894 as a bachelor. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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