Edmund Augustus Blundell

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Edmund Augustus Blundell (8 August 1804 – 12 October 1868) was a British colonial administrator.

History

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),[1] which was administered by British India.

Whilst in Asia he had a Burmese mistress who he had 11 children with.[2] 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.[3]

Blundell died in 1868 at Harrogate.

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