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John Blofeld, an Old Etonian whose estate in Norfolk had been acquired by his family in 1537, was not, it seemed, the obvious barrister to act for Marianne Faithfull when she and Mick Jagger were arrested by the Chelsea drug squad in 1969. He was not a noted aficionado of her music and had never partaken of cannabis or its derivative, hashish. So he thought he had better try it.

Blofeld, who was to take silk a few years later and would become a High Court judge and be knighted, was acting as a junior for Faithfull, who was the girlfriend of Jagger. She was already famed for reportedly having been clad only in a fur rug in another raid two years earlier. The Rolling Stones’ frontman was represented by Michael Havers, a future lord chancellor, who was also unfamiliar with this drug.

“During the case Michael and Dad went to the Metropolitan Police commissioner’s office to look at hashish,” said Blofeld’s son, Tom. “It was decided that, in order to know what the effects were like, and thus the social consequences involved, they should all have a smoke — in a borrowed pipe as they couldn’t roll a cigarette. Dad claimed he didn’t like it but Havers thought it rather good. The police gave no viewpoint either way.” The upshot was that Jagger was fined £200 and Faithfull (obituary, January 30, 2025) , whom Blofeld came to like, was acquitted.

Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull outside court in 1969

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Blofeld was considerably more accustomed to such exotic individuals than to aberrant drug-taking. He had attended the same prep school, Sunningdale in Berkshire, as a Scaramanga, whose name appealed to Ian Fleming, another old boy, for a villainous character in his James Bond books. Like Blofeld’s father and both his sons, Fleming became a member of Boodle’s in St James’s. Henry Blofeld, John’s younger brother, is of the view that the author alighted on the family name for another villain when leafing through the membership list. “Ian gave a yelp of delight, had a glass of champagne and never looked back,” he said.

In adult life John Blofeld had no interest in 007 and was not a filmgoer. He tended to converse primarily about subjects that interested him and preferred PG Wodehouse. There are competing stories for the Bond link, but few doubt that Ernst Stavro Blofeld derived from the Blofeld family.

John Christopher Calthorpe Blofeld was the son of Thomas Blofeld and Grizel (née Turner) and was born on the family’s estate, Hoveton House, Norfolk, in 1932. After Sunningdale, where he was captain of the 1st X1 cricket team, he was educated at Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge, where he read ancient history and classics for two years, followed by law for a year. He shared rooms with Tam Dalyell, his fellow Etonian and a future MP, and canvassed with him for the Labour Party.

Henry Blofeld, seven years younger than John, became a leading cricket commentator and writer. “‘Blowers’ was more jolly and a better cricketer than my father, but my father was more serious-minded and had more gravitas,” said Tom. According to Henry, John could have played regular minor counties cricket had he chosen to do so. “John was a left-handed batsman who played one game for Norfolk but he was very clever — you don’t become a High Court judge if you are not — and totally obsessed in his early life by the Bar. He would have been a very good player.”

Donald Pleasence as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the Bond villain, in a still for the film You Only Live Twice

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Before going up to Cambridge, Blofeld undertook his National Service in the army, serving in the Grenadier Guards. A knee ligament injury he sustained on an assault course resulted in him being sent to a military hospital in Colchester, where he became an acting medical corporal. Told he could never be a soldier, he was offered a commission in the Catering Corps. He turned this down and was discharged. The troublesome knee affected him all his life.

He was called to the Bar in 1956, joining chambers at 5 King’s Bench Walk in the Inner Temple, which specialised in crime and common law. His father had been high sheriff of Norfolk in 1953 and became friends with Cecil Havers, an eminent judge whose son, Michael, took Blofeld on as a pupil. Shedding his student political views, Blofeld became a Conservative councillor in Marylebone, London. In this capacity he went to Germany to look at a machine developed for crushing bones in crematoriums. It was bought.

“Many years later Dad found, to his horror, that this style of machine had been used in the Holocaust,” said his son. “By this time it was obsolete.”

After Blofeld’s marriage in 1960 he gave up politics at his wife’s request, even though he had been earmarked as a Conservative parliamentary candidate. By now a “wet” Tory, he counted among his friends Robert Rhodes James and Ken Clarke, both of whom became prominent Conservatives.

Blofeld took silk in 1975. In the hot summer of 1976 he was involved in a pornography prosecution of a firm specialising in rubber accoutrements that had been seized by police. The smell of the rubber, accentuated by the heat, remained with him all his life as a particular detestation. He became a circuit judge, firstly at St Albans and then at Norwich. Owing to his wife being unwell, he did not wish to be based away from Norfolk.

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