rector student Warden Anglican clergyman
Blundell was born in 1896 in Twickenham, Middlesex to Charles and Emma Gertrude Blundell He was baptized on 22 July 1887 at Richmond upon Thames
He married Dorothy Cathcart, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mistress Francis G. C. Graham in Grahamstown in about 1917.
Blundell was educated at King"s College, Wimbledon. Selwyn College, Cambridge. And Wells Theological College.
After ordination his first post was a curacy at Street James, Fulham. He was the Warden at Street Paul"s College, Grahamstown from 1915 to 1916 and then Curate at Claremont, Cape Town. He was then a Chaplain to the Forces until peace returned.
Following this he was Rector of King William"s Town until 1928 when he became Dean of Grahamstown, a post he held until 1934.
He presided over the 1931 synod of the Diocese of Grahamstown as Vicar-General. He was Vicar of Street Paul, Leicester from 1933 to 1938.
Rector of Street Aidan, Yeoville from 1938 to 1944. And then of Street George, Parktown from 1945 to 1952 (both in Johannesburg).
And finally of Vanderbijlpark from 1952 to 1953.
Personal recollection of Dean Blundell Transcribed from a notebook of undated newspaper clippings saved by Doris Thomas Thacher, who grew up in Grahamstown. In the Cathedral Church of South. South. Michael and George on Saturday afternoon a fashionable and interesting wedding was solemnised, when the Review Edmund Keith Blundell, son of Mr.
Charles Blundell, of Richmond, Surrey, was married to Dorothy Cathcart, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mistress
C. Graham, of Grahamstown. When the bride, who wore a gown of French white corded silk, entered the church, tastefully decorated with white flowers, there was a large congregation.
The Bishop of Grahamstown, the Right Review Doctor Phelps, officiated.
The service was fully choral, the hymns being beautifully sung by the choir.
Mr. Douglas Tayler, Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, presided at the organ, playing the opening bars of the Wedding March while the register was being signed in the vestry. Upon the Review J. South. Bazeley, Warden of Saint Paul"s devolved the duties of best man, Mr.
Reginald Graham and Mr.
Geoffrey Brown acting as groomsmen. At the conclusion of the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the bride"s mother, Kincardine, West Hill. This was largely attended, among the guests being, the Judge-President, the Bishop of Grahamstown, the Dean of Grahamstown, the Solicitor-General and the Principal of Saint Andrew"s College.
The presents were both numerous and handsome.
The health of the bride and bridegroom, who left by the night train for Camps Bay, was proposed by the Bishop.
