Background
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was born on the 17th of August 1840 at Petworth House, Sussex, the son of Francis Seawen Blunt, who served in the Peninsular War and was wounded at Corunna.
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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was born on the 17th of August 1840 at Petworth House, Sussex, the son of Francis Seawen Blunt, who served in the Peninsular War and was wounded at Corunna.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was educated at Twyford School, Stonyhurst, and at St Mary's College, Oscott.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt entered the diplomatic service in 1858, serving successively at Athens, Madrid, Paris and Lisbon. Together with his wife he travelled through Spain, Algeria, Egypt, the Syrian Desert, and extensively in the Middle East and India.
In 1882, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt championed the cause of Urabi Pasha, which led him to be banned from entering Egypt for four years.He was a violent opponent of the English policy in the Sudan, and in The Wind and the Whirlwind (in verse, 1883) prophesied its downfall.
He served in the English diplomatic service till, on his elder brother's death, he inherited the estates of his ancient family. In 1885 and 1886 he-stood unsuccessfully for parliament as a Home Ruler; and in 1887 he was arrested in Ireland while presiding over a political meeting in connexion with the agitation on Lord Clanricarde's estate, and was imprisoned for two months in Kilmainham.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt became known as an ardent sympathizer with Mahommedan aspirations, and in his Future of Islam (1888) he directed attention to the forces which afterwards produced the movements of Pan-Islamism and Mahdism. His best-known volume of verse, Love Sonnets of Proteus (1880), is a revelation of his real merits as an emotional poet.
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As an adult, he became an atheist.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was married to Lady Anne Noel, daughter of the earl of Lovelace and a granddaughter of the poet Byron.
