Peerage Record – 16745

     Sonia Tudor Rosemary Day is the daughter of Albert Edward Day.¹ She married Sir David Richard Reginald Blunt, 12th Bt., son of Sir Richard David Harvey Blunt, 11th Bt. and Elisabeth Malvine Van de Putte, in 1969.¹
     From 1969, her married name became Blunt.¹

     Davinia Angela Rosemary Blunt was born in 1972.¹ She is the daughter of Sir David Richard Reginald Blunt, 12th Bt. and Sonia Tudor Rosemary Day.¹

     Sir John Blunt, 1st Bt. was born on 24 July 1665.² He was the son of Thomas Blunt and Isabella Blacke.^1,3 He married, firstly, Elizabeth Court on 16 July 1689.¹ He married, secondly, Susannah Cradock, daughter of Richard Cradock, on 22 December 1713.¹ He died on 24 January 1732/33 at age 67.¹ He was buried at Moorfields, London, England^G.² His will was proven (by probate) on 3 February 1732/33.²
     He became a freeman of the Merchant Taylors’ Company on 5 May 1689.² He became a Liveryman of the Merchant Taylors’ Company on 11 March 1691.² He was a director of the South Seas Company. He was one of the principal ‘projectors’ of the company, and after its collapse, was fined the value of his estate, £183,349.² He was created 1st Baronet Blunt, of London [Great Britain] on 17 June 1720.¹ In 1732 he was fined by the Court of Chivalry for usurping the arms of the family of Blount of Sodington (which family Burke Peerage’s later claimed in its pre-1900 editions that he was descended from.)² His last will was dated from 13 February 1731/32 to 15 January 1732/33.

     Thomas Blunt was the son of John Blunt.² He married Isabella Blacke, daughter of Thomas Blacke, on 27 March 1654 at Stroud, Kent, England^G.² He died circa March 1703.³ He was buried on 28 March 1703 at Rochester, Kent, England^G.³
     He was a baptist cobbler at Rochester, Kent, England^G.¹

     Elizabeth Court married Sir John Blunt, 1st Bt., son of Thomas Blunt and Isabella Blacke, on 16 July 1689.¹ She died on 22 March 1707/8.¹ She was buried at Moorfields, London, England^G.²
     From 16 July 1689, her married name became Blunt.¹

     Sir Henry Blunt, 2nd Bt. was born on 6 December 1696.² He was the son of Sir John Blunt, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth Court.¹ He married Dorothy Nutt, daughter of William Nutt and Dorothy Hawkins, in March 1724. He died on 12 October 1759 at age 62.³ His will was proven (by probate) on 15 October 1759.² He was buried on 20 October 1759 at Walthamstow, Essex, England^G.²
     He succeeded as the 2nd Baronet Blunt, of London [G.B., 1720] on 24 January 1732/33.¹ He lived at St. Lawrence, Pountney, London, England^G.² His last will was dated 30 January 1759.

     Charles Blunt was born on 4 November 1700.¹ He was the son of Sir John Blunt, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth Court.¹ He married Mary Short, daughter of Peter Short.¹ He died on 18 June 1747 at age 46.¹
     He gained the rank of officer in the Army.¹

     Mary Short was the daughter of Peter Short.¹ She married Charles Blunt, son of Sir John Blunt, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth Court.¹ She died on 12 December 1765.¹
     Her married name became Blunt.¹

     Peter Short lived at Tenterden, Kent, England^G.¹