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2 unusual facts about Henry Blundell


Henry Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell

Henry Blundell-Hollinshead Blundell died on 28 September the same year, and was buried on 2 October at Halsall near Ormskirk.

St Matthew's Church, Wigan

It was paid for by Colonel Henry Blundell, owner of the Pemberton Colliery, in memory of his wife, Beatrice who had died in 1884.


Giovanni Volpato

Volpato made excavations in Ostia (1779, with the antiquarian Thomas Jenkins), Porta San Sebastiano (1779) and Quadraro (1780); and sold sculptures to king Gustav III of Sweden (1784), to the Vatican Museums, and to the British collector, Henry Blundell.


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