Richard Blount (died 1564) was a sixteenth-century Oxfordshire gentleman, MP and lieutenant of the Tower of London.
He was the son of Richard Blount (d. 1508) and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of William de la Ford of Iver, Buckinghamshire.
[2] He became keeper of Dedisham manor and Slinfold, Sussex and consequently elected to Parliament for Steyning in 1553.
He was chosen to represent Oxfordshire in the Parliament of 1563 and was appointed lieutenant of the Tower by Elizabeth I.
[2] He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Lyster of Southampton by 1529.