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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | First chapters | Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter |
 | | They were a junior branch of the Blunts of Crabbet Park, landed gentry with a large estate near Horsham in Sussex, whose incumbent at Anthony's birth was the infamous poet and anti-imperialist Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. |
 | | Frederick Blunt was a hard-working and successful career churchman who, after being made a canon of the archbishopric of York, had risen to become Suffragan Bishop of Hull in 1891, having turned down an invitation to become Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia. |
 | | As babies, the Blunt boys sit swaddled in lace; then as boys they stand unselfconsciously in sailor suits, surrounded by toys and pets, in the rectory's flower-filled garden, with its roses and artichoke grove planted and tended by Hilda, who was an enthusiastic horticulturalist. |
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