Blount baronets of Sodington (1642)

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Blount baronets
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Blount baronets of Sodington
Creation date1642 [1]
Statusextinct
Extinction date2004 [2]
MottoLux tua via mea, Your light is my way [1]

The Blount Baronetcy, of Sodington in the County of Worcester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 5 October 1642 for Walter Blount, High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1619 and Member of Parliament for Droitwich from 1624 to 1625. He later fought as a Royalist in the Civil War. He was captured in 1645 and imprisoned in the Tower of London. In 1652 he was convicted of treason and his estates at Sodington Hall, Worcestershire, and at Mawley Hall, Shropshire were sequestrated. The family recovered the estates after the Restoration of Charles II. [3]

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The title descended in the direct line until the death of his grandson, the third Baronet, in 1717. The late Baronet was succeeded by his nephew, the fourth Baronet. He was succeeded by his elder son, the fifth Baronet. He died childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the sixth Baronet. His grandson, the eighth Baronet, was high sheriff of Worcestershire in 1835. His son, the ninth Baronet, was a deputy lieutenant of Worcestershire. His eldest son, the tenth Baronet, died childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the eleventh Baronet. The title became extinct on the death of the latter's son, the twelfth Baronet, in 2004.

Blount baronets, of Sodington (1624)

Extended family

Sir Edward Charles Blount (1809–1905), son of Edward Blount, Member of Parliament for Steyning, second son of the sixth Baronet, was an important banker and railway promoter in France. Blount, Barons Mountjoy were descended from this branch of the family.

Lady Elizabeth Blount who had married the 9th baronet was a leading exponent of the Flat Earth idea.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage: Containing the Family Histories of the Nobility. With the Arms of the Peers. Hurst and Blackett. p. 613.
  2. 1 2 "Blount, Sir Walter (Edward Alpin)" . Who's Who . A & C Black. Retrieved 16 October 2021.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. compid=42898 Parishes: Mamble, A History of the County of Worcester: volume 4 (1924), pp. 285–289 from British History Online
  4. "Blount, Sir Walter de Sodington" . Who's Who . A & C Black. Retrieved 16 October 2021.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. "Blount, Sir Walter Aston" . Who's Who . A & C Black. Retrieved 16 October 2021.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. "Blount, Sir Edward Robert" . Who's Who . A & C Black. Retrieved 16 October 2021.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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