Henry Blundell

Henry Blundell (1813 was born in Dublin, Ireland. He brought his six children to Australia in 1860 and, moving permanently to New Zealand in 1863, began publishing the Wellington evening daily newspaper The Evening Post on 8 February 1865.

Nine years later Henry retired, beginning by paying a visit to his native Ireland, leaving his newspaper in the hands of the three Blundell brothers; John (1841–1922), Henry (1844–1894), and Louis (1849–1934). Thereafter he travelled regularly between Wellington, Melbourne and Sydney though he remained based in Wellington. while on holiday in Sydney NSW Australia, and was interred at Wellington's Bolton Street Cemetery, and his grave is part of the memorial trail.

His great-grandson Sir Denis Blundell served as New Zealand's Governor-General from 1972 to 1977.

Posterity The six children of Henry Blundell and his wife née Margaret McGowan were born between 1841 and 1852. John Ellen, Mrs John Stevenson Thomas Henry Margaret McGowan, Mrs Nicholas Marchant Louis Proctor Caroline Amelia, Mrs John Marshall