Anthony Blunt

He was educated at Marlborough College where he joined the College's secret 'Society of Amici' in which he was a contemporary of Louis MacNeice (whose unfiniAnthony Bluntd autobiography The Strings are False contains numerous. Early life
Blunt was born in Bournemouth the third and youngest son of a vicar the Revd (Arthur) Stanley Vaughan Blunt (1870–1929) and his wife Hilda Violet (1880–1969) daughter of Henry Master of the Madras civil service. Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983) known as Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to 1979 when he was stripped of his honours was a British art historian who was exposed as a Soviet spy late in his life.

Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983) known as Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to 1979 when he was stripped of his honours was a British art historian who was exposed as a Soviet spy late in his life. He was exposed as a member of the Cambridge Five a group of spies working for the Soviet Union from some time in the 1930s to at least the early 1950s.