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The Blunt Baronetcy, of the City of London, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 17 June 1720 for John Blunt, the famous perpetrator of the South Sea Bubble, for his good work for the nation of Great Britain. From 1703 he was the secretary of the Hollow Sword Blade Company, a joint-stock company effectively operating as a bank. He was a director of the South Sea Company from 1711. He was the main architect of the ambitious scheme for the company to assume the National Debt, and when the bribery and fraud were revealed, Parliament confiscated all his assets except £5,000, while most directors were allowed to retain £10,000.

Blunt baronets, of the City of London (1720)
• Sir John Blunt, 1st Baronet (1665–1733) • Sir Henry Blunt, 2nd Baronet (1696–1759) • Sir Charles William Blunt, 3rd Baronet (1731–1802) • Sir Charles Richard Blunt, 4th Baronet (1775–1840) • Sir Walter Blunt, 5th Baronet (1826–1847) • Sir Charles William Blunt, 6th Baronet (1810–1890) • Sir William Blunt, 7th Baronet (1826–1902). He was the son of William Blunt, third son of the third Baronet, and succeeded his cousin. He served in the Bengal Civil Service from 1846 to 1875. He married twice, in 1852 Margaret Scott (died 1854), daughter of Captain Scott; then in 1857 to a daughter of Rev. Robert Green Jeston, she died in 1892. He died childless and was succeeded by his younger brother. • Sir John Harvey Blunt, 8th Baronet (1839–1922) • Sir John Harvey Blunt, 9th Baronet (1872–1938) m. Maud Julia daughter of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons • Sir John Lionel Reginald Blunt, 10th Baronet (1908–1969) • Sir Richard David Harvey Blunt, 11th Baronet (1912–1975) • Sir David Richard Reginald Harvey Blunt, 12th Baronet (born 1938) The heir presumptive is Jonathan Stuart Needham (formerly Blunt) (born 1955), a great-grandson of the 8th Baronet. His surname was changed to that of his stepfather. ==See also==
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