Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Baronet (30 January 1643 – 1707) was an

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baronet and politician. He was the son of

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and his wife Sarah Colley, daughter of Sir William Colley. In 1675, he succeeded his father as baronet. The year before he and his two brothers William and Winwood killed Thomas Preston, 3rd Viscount Tara, but were acquitted of his

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and subsequently

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by the king. Following the

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in 1689, he was attainted by the Parliament of

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. In 1692, Blundell was returned to the

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for King's County, and represented the constituency until his death in 1707. On 1 December 1671, Blundell married firstly Ursula Davys, daughter of Sir Paul Davys and his second wife Anne Parsons.Belmore, Earl of (1887) ''Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone 1631-1885''Dublin Alexander Thom and Co p.23 She died two years later, and he married secondly Anne Ingoldsby, only daughter of

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and Anne Waller, in 1675.Cokayne, G.E. ''Complete Peerage'' Reprinted Gloucester 1983 Vol.2 p.197By his second wife, Blundell had nine children, including Montague, who succeeded to the baronetcy and was later elevated to the

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, and Anne, who married the prominent Jacobite General Robert Echlin.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blundell, Francis 1643 births 1707 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Irish MPs 1692–1693 Irish MPs 1695–1699 Irish MPs 1703–1713 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for King's County constituencies