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Thomas Blount or Blunt (born ca. 1604) was a British soldier, Member of Parliament and inventor.
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Thomas Blount or Blunt (born ca. 1604) was a British soldier, Member of Parliament and inventor.
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. He was admitted to Grays Inn in 1624. [1]
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He knew many of the Fellows of the Royal Society. He was himself admitted as a Fellow in February 1665 but resigned in 1668. [2]
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