Personal recollection of Dean Blundell

Transcribed from a notebook of undated newspaper clippings saved by Doris Thomas Thacher, who grew up in Grahamstown.

In the Cathedral Church of S. S. Michael and George on Saturday afternoon a fashionable and interesting wedding was solemnised, when the Rev. Edmund Keith Blundell, son of Mr. Charles Blundell, of Richmond, Surrey, was married to Dorothy Cathcart, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis G. C. Graham, of Grahamstown. When the bride, who wore a gown of French white corded silk, entered the church, tastefully decorated with white flowers, there was a large congregation. The Bishop of Grahamstown, the Right Rev. Dr. Phelps, officiated. The service was fully choral, the hymns being beautifully sung by the choir. Mr. Douglas Tayler, F.R.C.O., presided at the organ, playing the opening bars of the Wedding March while the register was being signed in the vestry. The bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by the Misses Lovell and Winfred Graham (sisters) and Miss Ruth Graham (cousin), Miss Nonie Roussouw and Miss Helen Mullins acting as flower girls. Upon the Rev. J. S. Bazeley, Warden of St. Paul's devolved the duties of best man, Mr. Reginald Graham and Mr. Geoffrey Brown acting as groomsmen. At the conclusion of the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the bride's mother, Kincardine, West Hill. This was largely attended, among the guests being, the Judge-President, the Bishop of Grahamstown, the Dean of Grahamstown, the Solicitor-General and the Principal of St. Andrew's College. The presents were both numerous and handsome. The health of the bride and bridegroom, who left by the night train for Camps Bay, was proposed by the Bishop. Their future home will be in Claremont Cape Peninsula, whither they carry with them the best wishes of a very wide circle of friends.^[13]