Born 8 August 1804 in
Taunton,
Somerset, England, the son of William Blundell and Mary Ann Horniblow. He joined the
East India Company as a writer in 1820 and was a British diplomat and Commissioner of
Tenasserim from 1833 to 1843, Resident Councillor of
Malacca from 1847 to 1849 and Resident Councillor of
Penang from 1849 to 1855. He became
Governor of the Straits Settlements (1855–1859), which was administered by
British India. Whilst in Asia he had a
Burmese mistress who he had 11 children with. He gave them his name and sent them to be educated in
Calcutta and England. He married Mellor Mynors Farmer on 22 January 1861 after he had returned to England. Blundell died in 1868 at
Harrogate. ==References==