He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, which he entered in 1806, and left for Pembroke College, Cambridge, as Parkin exhibitioner, in 1813.
[1] In 1824 Gerald Valerian Wellesley, a brother of the Duke of Wellington and then rector of Chelsea, London, induced Blunt to become his curate.
He was there for six years, making a reputation as a preacher, and on the erection of Trinity Church, in Sloane Street in 1830, he was appointed its first incumbent, becoming a rector 15 June 1832.
[1] Lung disease compelled Blunt to pass winters at health resorts, and he died in his rectory, 20 July 1843, in his 49th year; he was buried at Streatham.
He introduced bible and communicants' classes, and published the first parish magazine, called the Poor Churchman's Evening Companion.
The first of these were the Lectures on the Life of Jacob, delivered in 1823; these were succeeded by courses on St. Peter (1829), Abraham (1831), St. Paul in two series (1832, 1833), and closing with one on the Prophet Elisha in 1839, the six years' interval seeing the publication of three courses on The Life of Jesus Christ (1834–36), a volume of discourses on Some of the Doctrinal Articles of the Church of England in 1835, a volume of selected Sermons in 1837, and Expository Sermons on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in 1838.