Davenport Fabian Cartwright Blunt


Davenport Fabian Cartwright Blunt was a British Civil Servant who became Under-Secretary at HM Treasury.

Biography

Blunt was born in Bedford on 19 January 1888 the son of Harry and Agnes Blunt. Blunt's father was a tutor and Blunt himself was educated at Bedford Modern School.
After school, Blunt joined the civil service and by 1911 was already an examiner in the exchequer and audit department. He moved to HM Treasury in 1939 where he was Under-Secretary between 1946 and 1948. In 1947 he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
Blunt married Edith Harris in London in 1911. He died aged 77 on 28 December 1965 in Lewisham, London.