Thomas Blount (inventor)
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Thomas Blount or Blunt(born ca. 1604) was a British soldier, Member of Parliament and inventor.
Life
[edit]Blount was born in Wricklesmarsh, inCharlton,Kent, the second son of Edward Blount of theMiddle Templeand his second wife, Fortune, daughter of Sir William Garway. Blount was educated atBrasenose College, Oxfordwhere he matriculated in 1623. He was admitted to Grays Inn in 1624.[1]
He was present at the meetings ofRoyalistcountry 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. On theRestoration of the monarchyhe was imprisoned but subsequently released. He representedKentas an MP in theBarebones Parliamentof 1653.
He knew many of the Fellows of theRoyal Society.He was himself admitted as a Fellow in February 1665 but resigned in 1668.[2]
References
[edit]- ^.Dictionary of National Biography.London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^"Library and Archive catalogue".Royal Society.Retrieved16 December2010.
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