Abstract
W. P. Blount, Director and Chief Poultry Adviser of the British Oil and Cake Mills, Limited, died suddenly at his home at Stoke Mandeville on Wednesday, July 10, at the age of 63.He was born in Derby, England, June 13, 1905, and attended the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College in Edinburgh, qualifying M.R.C.V.S. in 1928. He remained in Edinburgh as a Demonstrator in Anatomy and James Tindall Post Graduate Scholar in 1928, as an Assistant to the Professor of Anatomy and Centenary Research Fellow, 1929 and 1930. In 1931 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and in 1938 received a Ph.D. degree at the University of Edinburgh. His thesis was entitled “The Haematology of the Ruminant and the Domestic Fowl”. In 1956 he became the first holder of the Fellowship in Poultry Husbandry, National Poultry Diploma Board, England. In 1947 he was elected a Fellow .
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