His mother, Mary née Sweetman of Killiney, County Dublin was an author who wrote a number of novels about country life under the pen name of M. E.

[2] In 1912 he helped found the Lancashire Federation of Rural Friendly Societies to enable farm workers to take advantage of the National Insurance Act 1911.

The seat, held by the Conservatives since its creation in 1885, had been unexpectedly lost to James Bell of the Labour Party in 1918.

He lost the seat at the 1929 general election to Labour's Samuel Rosbotham, also a major landowner and farmer in the constituency.

Blundell died suddenly from heart failure in a hotel in Kensington, London in October 1936, aged 56.