| Ratings 
 
 
  | Year | Rank | Edo | Dev. | Games |  
  | 1865 | 350 | 1886 | (195) | 1 |  
 
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |  | 
   | Name: Blunden, John |  | Also known as: Sir John Blunden |  
   | Born: 21 Dec. 1814 |  
   | Died: 17 Jan. 1890 |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Chess Association, Manchester 1857 Report, page 1, 5, 40 |  
   | Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 38 |  
   | Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 17, 351 |  
   | Harding, Steinitz in London, page 274 |  
   | Löwenthal and Medley, Chess Congress of 1862, page xl |  
   | Löwenthal and Medley, Transactions of the BCA, 1868-1869, page 1 |  
   | Saint James' Chess Club, Chess Match by Electric Telegraph, page 1 |  
   | Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 98 |  
   | Whyld, English Tournaments, page 8 |  
   | Williams, Souvenir of the Bristol Club, page 139 |  | Periodicals |  
   | [BLL], 23 Feb. 1862, page 1 |  
   | [CP], vol. 3, no. 13, June 1853, page 319 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 4, no. 3, Mar. 1843, page 94 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 4, no. 5, May 1843, page 147, 148 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 6, no. 2, Feb. 1845, page 51 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 10, no. 6, June 1849, page 165 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 12, no. 5, May 1851, page 136 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 1, no. 6, June 1853, page 180 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 3, no. 30, June 1861, page 165 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 3, no. 34, Oct. 1861, page 294 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 3, no. 36, Dec. 1861, page 355 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 3, no. 3, June 1872, page 88 |  
   | [CPM], vol. 1, no. 6, June 1865, page 185 |  
   | [CPM], vol. 1, no. 9, Sep. 1865, page 283 |  
   | [CPM], vol. 3, no. 8, 1 Aug. 1867, page 251 |  
   | [Era], vol. 24, no. 1241, 6 July 1862, page 15 |  
   | [Fld], 14 May 1853 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 22, no. 609, 19 Feb. 1853, page 147 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 22, no. 621, 14 May 1853, page 363 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 26, no. 748, 16 June 1855, page 599 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 31, no. 875, 22 Aug. 1857, page 195 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 33, no. 925, 3 July 1858, page 14 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 37, no. 1043, 4 Aug. 1860, page 116 |  
   | [SZ], vol. 13, no. 9, Sep. 1858, page 372 |  | Web |  
   | Harding, Tim.  [The Last Homecoming of Mars], page 6 |  
   | Harding, Tim.  [TCD Chess Club: a brief history of league winners] |  
   | Thomas, W.R.  [Captain William Evans], page 5 |  |  |