Sir Thomas Blount, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Pope Blount, 1st Baronet (12 September 1649 – 27 January 1697) was an English politician and essayist.

[1] Thomas Pope Blount was born on 12 September 1649 at Upper Holloway,[2] Islington, London.

[6] In December 1678 he inherited Tyttenhanger House, Hertfordshire from his mother, before succeeding to the remainder of the family estate on the death of his father in 1682.

[7] On his death the title passed to his son, Sir Thomas Pope Blount, 2nd Baronet.

[10] 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.