His younger brother was Alfred Walter Frank Blunt,[3] an Anglican bishop.

He passed at the top of the list for the Indian Civil Service competitive examination after his fourth year at Oxford.

He was one year at University College London, and proceeded to India to join the Indian Civil Service in 1901.

From 1931 to 1935 he served as a Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of the United Provinces,[5] before he stepped down due to poor health.

[8] After Blunt's retirement, he returned to England, where he spent the last few years of his life in Fleet.