Sir John Blofeld, who died 30 November, 2025, aged 93, was a former judge of the High Court and was head of that landed gentry family, of Hoveton House.
He was born 11 July, 1932, son of Thomas Robert Calthorpe Blofeld (1903-1986), author, and his wife the former Grizel Blanche Turner (1903-1992), and was the elder brother of Henry Blofeld (born 1939), the sports journalist and cricket commentator, who was at Eton with Ian Fleming and his name is believed to have been the inspiration for the name of James Bond supervillain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
John Christopher Calthorpe Blofeld was a Judge of the High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division 1990-2001. He was knighted in 1991. He was appointed a Master of the Mercers' Co in 2003.
The Blofeld pile, Hoveton House, near Wroxham, is a splendid William and Mary house, with its park originally laid out by Humphry Repton, & has been in the Blofeld family for over 300 years.
John Blofeld married in 1961, Judith Anne Howie Mitchell (who died 26 June, 2013).
Sir John is survived by three children, two sons, Thomas (born 1964), Piers (born 1968), and a daughter, Charlotte (born 1962).
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