1 Family Portraits of the Blount Family of Mapledurham by Philippa Hunter (copyright) The original collection of fourteen Family Portraits once hung in the drawing room belonging to the solicitor, Alfred Francis Blount (elder brother of the architect Gilbert Blount) who died at 1, Montagu-square, London, on 17th March 1895. His widow, Charlotte, married Alfred Ashley Westby and died in the Auvergne in 1923. The portraits were eventually bought by Alfred’s niece, Emma May, nee Blount. Patrick Rogers wrote about Alfred Blount in the Westminster Cathedral Magazine, ‘Oremus’ in 2001: “That land is for sale, I wish you to buy it.” Cardinal Manning was addressing his solicitor, Alfred Blount, in November 1882. What both men were looking at, from the Cardinal’s residence at the bottom of Carlisle Place, was Tothill Fields Prison. Blount formed a company and bought the site in 1884. The western half was immediately sold to the Cardinal at cost, the remainder to a property developer. On the land sold to the Cardinal now stands Westminster Cathedral.
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Family Portraits of the Blount Family of Mapledurham
by Philippa Hunter (copyright)
The original collection of fourteen Family Portraits once hung in the drawing room belonging
to the solicitor, Alfred Francis Blount (elder brother of the architect Gilbert Blount) who died
at 1, Montagu-square, London, on 17th March 1895. His widow, Charlotte, married Alfred
Ashley Westby and died in the Auvergne in 1923. The portraits were eventually bought by
Alfred’s niece, Emma May, nee Blount.
Patrick Rogers wrote about Alfred Blount in the Westminster Cathedral Magazine, ‘Oremus’
in 2001:
“That land is for sale, I wish you to buy it.” Cardinal Manning was addressing his solicitor,
Alfred Blount, in November 1882. What both men were looking at, from the Cardinal’s
residence at the bottom of Carlisle Place, was Tothill Fields Prison. Blount formed a company
and bought the site in 1884. The western half was immediately sold to the Cardinal at cost,
the remainder to a property developer. On the land sold to the Cardinal now stands
Westminster Cathedral.
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For more information about the family of Joseph Blount of Mapledurham and his wife, Mary
Canning, please see the article entitled ‘Mary Blount, nee Canning’: https://wp.me/p4BX9P-
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