John Blatchly

Dr. John Marcus Blatchly MBE FSA (7 October 1932 – 3 September 2015) was a schoolmaster, author and noted historian of the county of Suffolk.[1][2][3]

The son of Alfred Ernest Blatchly and Edith Selina Giddings, he studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge and became a chemistry teacher. From 1972 to 1993 he was headmaster of Ipswich School in Suffolk. After retiring, he served as the school's archivist emeritus and published a history of the school.

A keen local historian, he also served as chairman of the Suffolk Records Society, president of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History and chairman of the Ipswich Historic Churches Trust. He was awarded an MBE in 2006 for services to heritage and was elected honorary Wolsey Professor at University Campus Suffolk in 2014.

The John Blatchly Local Studies Library is a planned facility at The Hold, a new facility being built in Ipswich by the Suffolk Record Office to be opened in 2020.[4]

Selected publications
  • Isaac Johnson of Woodbridge, 1754–1835: that ingenious artist (1979)
  • Topographers of Suffolk (1988)
  • The Town Library of Ipswich Provided for the Use of the Town Preachers in 1599: A History and Catalogue (1989)
  • The Bookplates of Edward Gordon Craig (1997)
  • The Bookplates of George Wolfe Plank, and a Selection of his Book Illustrations (2002)
  • A Famous Antient Seed-plot of Learning: A History of Ipswich School (2003)
  • East-Anglian Ex-Libris: Bookplates and Labels Made Between 1700 and the Present Day (2008)
  • Ipswich School: A History in Old Photographs from the 1850s to the 1980s (2009)
  • Miracles in Lady Lane: The Ipswich Shrine at the Westgate (2013), with Diarmaid MacCulloch

References
  1. "John Blatchly obituary | Education". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  2. Lynne Mortimer. "Former Ipswich headmaster, author and historian John Blatchly dies at the age of 82 | Latest Suffolk and Essex News". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  3. "John Blatchly". ipswich.school. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  4. "Suffolk Record Office and The Hold". Waterfront Life. Retrieved 24 December 2019.



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