Peter Blundell

Peter Blundell was a prosperous clothier, trading between Tiverton, Devon, and London. He died in April 1601, never having married and with no known issue. On his death, he left over £32,000 cash to fellow clothiers and their families, his employees, created several charitable trusts, and gave £2400 to build Blundell's School in Tiverton, to be a free grammar school.
Blundell also left £2000 in his will for the endowment of six scholars from The School in Divinity at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; arrangements were made for Blundell Scholars to enter Balliol [College, Oxford|Balliol] and Sidney Sussex colleges respectively.
He was buried on 9 May 1601 at St [Michael Paternoster Royal] in London.
Blundell Park in Cleethorpes, the ground of Grimsby Town Football Club since 1899, is named after Peter Blundell, whose money enabled Sidney Sussex College to buy the land in 1616.