Background
He was the third son of Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1552–1638) of Blount"s Hall, Staffordshire and Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire and was educated at Street Albans Free School and Trinity College, Oxford.
He was the third son of Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1552–1638) of Blount"s Hall, Staffordshire and Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire and was educated at Street Albans Free School and Trinity College, Oxford.
Trinity College.
He travelled extensively in Europe and the Levant and was author of Voyage into the Levant published in London in 1634. He was knighted in 1639. 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.
He replaced the old manor house with a new mansion Tyttenhanger House in about 1654.
He served as High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1661. His likeness painted by Sir Peter Lely is exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery.
Blount married Hesther Wane and had seven sons including Thomas Pope Blount (see Blount baronets) and Charles Blount.