Dermot Howard Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell MVO (27 February 1874 – 26 October 1910) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. He served in the Second Boer War and played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club.
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| Full name | Dermot Howard Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 February 1874 Mayfair, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 October 1910(1910-10-26) (aged 36) Kensington, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | Gerald Ward (brother-in-law) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1895–1904 | Berkshire | ||||||||||||||
| 1902 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 13 February 2019 | |||||||||||||||
The son of Major-General Richard Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell and his wife, Henrietta Frances Kirwan,[1] he was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, where he played for the college cricket team in 1890 and 1891.[2] After graduating from the Royal Military College in April 1894, he entered into the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment.[3]
By July 1897, he was serving with the King's Royal Rifle Corps, with promotion to lieutenant coming in that month.[4] Blundell was appointed as a member of the Royal Victorian Order in November 1900.[5] He served during the Second Boer War.[6] In May 1903, he was an acting captain serving as aide-de-camp to Lord Grenfell.[7] He was promoted permanently to the rank of captain in December 1905.[8] He was promoted to brigade major in February 1907.[9]
He made his debut in minor counties cricket for Berkshire in their first ever Minor Counties Championship, played in 1895 against Hertfordshire.[10] His military career limited his appearances for Berkshire in minor counties cricket, with him making ten appearances up to 1904.[10] He did make one appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Leicestershire at Lord's in 1902.[11] Batting once during the match, he scored 45 runs in the MCC first-innings before being dismissed by Thomas Marlow.[12]
He married Eugenie Sybil Ward in June 1901, with the couple having one son.[1] Blundell died at Kensington in October 1910.[13] His brother-in-law, Gerald Ward, was also a first-class cricketer.