Henry Blount (knight)

Sir Henry Blount (1602–1682) was a 17th-century English landowner, traveller and author.

He was the third son of Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1552–1638) of Blount's Hall, Staffordshire and Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire and was educated at St Albans Free School and Trinity College, Oxford.

He served Charles I during the English Civil War and was present at the Battle of Edgehill but he was acquitted by Parliament and later served in 1655 on a commission to consider methods of improving the trade and navigation of the Commonwealth of England.

[1] He was heir of his elder brother Thomas and inherited the estate at Tyttenhanger in 1654.

His likeness painted by Sir Peter Lely is exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery.