Sir
William
Blunden
4th Bt
[uncertain]
Born in Dublin, Ireland
Ancestors 
Son of John Blunden 3rd Bt
and Elizabeth (Knox) Blunden
Brother of
John Overington Blunden, Edward Herbert Blunden, Maurice Robert Blunden, Arthur Henry Blunden, Abraham Aloysius Blunden MD, Kate (Blunden) Richardson, Harriette (Blunden) Egan and Nicola Sophia (Blunden) Becher
Husband of
Florence Caroline (Shuttleworth) Blunden
— married
26 Apr 1879 in Te Henui Church, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Descendants 
Died
at age 83
in Blunden Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
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Biography
4th Baronet Blunden, of Blunden Castle, doctor, of Temuka, New Zealand.
Education
He went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his degree in Arts.
New Zealand
He went to New Zealand.
Marriage and family
In 1879 at Te Henui Church, New Plymouth, Taranaki, he married Florence Caroline Shuttleworth, daughter of Henry Shuttleworth, of New Plymouth, with issue two sons and one daughter.
Baron Blunden of Blunden Castle, Kilkenny
In 1890 he succeeded his father as 4th Baronet Blunden. Later, with his wife and three children the family returned to Ireland.
In 1904 he was High Sheriff of Kilkenny.
Death
He died on 25 October 1923, aged 83.
Legacy
He was succeeded by his son John Blunden, 5th Baronet, who died three days after him.
Sources
Obit 18 Dec 1923, Father and Son, Death Follows Death, NZH, Vol LX, Issue 18585; Temuka Leader, Papers Past, NLNZ [1]
Complete Baronetage [2]
A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of The British Empire, John Burke, Vol 1 (1832).
Blunden of Castle Blunden, County of Kilkenny, The Baronetage, Peerage and Knightage of the British Empire, by Joseph Foster (1881, 2nd Ed).
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