Cricket commentator henry blofeld biography

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    Cricket commentator henry blofeld biography

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    • Henry Blofeld

    English sports journalist

    Henry Calthorpe BlofeldOBE (born 23 September 1939),[1] nicknamed Blowers by Brian Johnston, is an English retired sports journalist, broadcaster and amateur ornithologist best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra.

    He has established a reputation as a commentator with an accent, vocabulary and syntax that is quintessentially Old Etonian both in style and substance. He also writes on cricket and has authored eight books to date.[2]

    Early life

    Blofeld's family were landowners at Hoveton in Norfolk and he was the youngest of three siblings.

    His elder brother, Sir John Blofeld, became a High Court judge.[3] Henry's father (Thomas Robert Calthorpe Blofeld, 1903–1986) was at Eton with Ian Fleming and his name is believed to have been the inspiration for the name of James Bondsupervillain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.[4][5]

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