Edmund Keith Blundell (1886–1961)[1] was an Anglican clergyman in South Africa.
Blundell was born on 11 November 1886[2] in Twickenham, Middlesex to Charles and Emma Gertrude Blundell[3] He was baptised on 22 July 1887 at Richmond upon Thames[4]
In 1911 he lived at 7 Vicars' Close, Wells where he was a student of theology.[5] During World War I he was an Army Chaplain and after the war he relinquished his commission
He married Dorothy Cathcart, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis G. C. Graham in Grahamstown in 1916.[6]
Blundell was educated at King's College, Wimbledon; Selwyn College, Cambridge; and Wells Theological College.[7]
After ordination his first post was a curacy at St James, Fulham.[8] He was the Warden at St 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.[9] He presided over the 1931 synod of the Diocese of Grahamstown as Vicar-General.[10] He was Vicar of St Paul, Leicester from 1933 to 1938; Rector of St Aidan, Yeoville from 1938 to 1944; and then of St George, Parktown from 1945 to 1952 (both in Johannesburg); and finally of Vanderbijlpark from 1952 to 1953.[11]
Transcribed from a notebook of undated newspaper clippings saved by Doris Thomas Thacher, who grew up in Grahamstown.