9. Anthony Frederick Blunt was a British art historian who was exposed as a Soviet spy late in his life. Blunt was Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Surveyor of the King's Pictures and London. Known as Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO between 1956 and 1979, 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.
Blunt was born in Bournemouth, the third and youngest son of a vicar, the Revd. Stanley Vaughan Blunt and his wife, Hilda Violet, daughter of Henry Master of the Madras civil service.He was educated at Marlborough College, where he joined the College's secret 'Society of Amica', in which he was a contemporary of Louis MacNeice, John Betjeman and Graham Shepard. He was remembered by historian John Edward Bowle, a year ahead of Blunt at Marlborough, as an intellectual who was too preoccupied with the realm of ideas.