# Sir John Blunt — The Humbugs of the World character guide

> Sir John Blunt in The Humbugs of the World by P. T. Barnum.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Blunt, John, the speculative Blunt

**First appearance:** 0032-xxv

## Who they are

A director of the South Sea Company, involved in the bubble.

## In the story

### [Part III: Trade and Business Impositions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_humbugs_of_the_world_se/chapters/part-iii-trade-and-business-impositions)

Associated with speculative financial schemes.

### [Part IV: Money Manias](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_humbugs_of_the_world_se/chapters/part-iv-money-manias)

Speculative figure associated with financial manias.

### [John Bull's Great Money Humbug: The South Sea Bubble in 1720](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_humbugs_of_the_world_se/chapters/xxvi)

Chief architect of the South Sea scheme; speculated and inflated the bubble, later stripped of wealth.

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