Sir Thomas Blount, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Pope Blount, 1st Baronet (12 September 1649 – 27 January 1697) was an English baronet.[1][2]

Thomas Blount was the son of Henry and Hester Blount (pictured).

Thomas Pope Blount was born on 12 September 1649 in Upper Holloway,[1] Islington, London, son of Sir Henry Blount and Hester Wane. Thomas was the brother of Charles Blount. Thomas married on 22 July 1669 Jane Caesar, the daughter of Sir Henry Caesar.[1]

He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 1 December 1668. In December 1678 he succeeded to the estate of Tittenhanger in Hertfordshire from his mother. He was the Member of Parliament for St Albans[1] between 1679 and 1681 and for Hertfordshire between 1689 and 1697. He was a Commissioner of Public Accounts between 1694 and 1697.

Blout's Essays on Several Subjects (or Several Occassions), originally published in 1692, touch on learning ancient and modern, and the education of children.[1] In 1697 he added an essay that has been described as openly deistic.[3] His Censura celebrorum authorum sive tractatus in quo varia virorum doctorum de clarissimis cujusque seculi scriptoribus judicia traduntur (1690) was originally compiled for Blount's own use, and is a dictionary in chronological order of what various eminent writers have said about one another. This involved enormous labour in Blount's time. It was published at Geneva in 1694 with all the quotations from modern languages translated into Latin, and again in 1710.[1]

He was created baronet of Tittenhanger on 27 January 1679. On his death in Tittenhanger the title passed to his son, Sir Thomas Pope Blount, 2nd Baronet.

Works

Censura celebrorum authorum sive tractatus in quo varia virorum doctorum de clarissimis cujusque seculi scriptoribus judicia traduntur (1690)
Essays on Several Occasions (1692)
A Natural History, containing many not common observations extracted out of the best modern writers (1693)
De re poetica, or remarks upon Poetry, with Characters and Censures of the most considerable Poets (1694)[1]

References

One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Blount, Sir Thomas Pope". Encyclopædia Britannica. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 87.
Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "B" (part 3)
Thomas Pope Blount in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists

Baronetage of England
New title	Blount baronets 1679–1697	Succeeded by Thomas Pope Blount

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[EB1911-1] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Blount, Sir Thomas Pope". Encyclopædia Britannica. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 87.

[2] Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "B" (part 3)

[3] Thomas Pope Blount in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists