Thomas Blount or Blunt (born ca.
Blount was born in Wricklesmarsh, in Charlton, Kent, the second son of Edward Blount of the Middle Temple and his second wife, Fortune, daughter of Sir William Garway.
Blount was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1623.
[1] He was present at the meetings of Royalist country gentlemen at Maidstone, which resulted in the getting up the Kentish petition of March 1642, and turned informer, giving an account of the proceedings in evidence at the bar of the House of Commons.
He was a colonel in the Parliamentary Army during the Civil War.