I raised the matter of Blount and Australia with my learned friend John Bangsund <bangsund at pipeline.com.au> who scoured his CD-ROMss, his reference library and his commodious mind for possible clews. He found this:
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Edward Blount was a relatively unimportant person (as far as
Australia was concerned) in the Colonial Office in the
1830s. He was in favor of [gasp] Catholic Emancipation.
A bias, no doubt, sure to gain favor among people named Gene Wolfe, but otherwise perhaps not all that salient to Fifth Head.
Damien Broderick