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Blunt was born James Hillier Blount, on 22 February 1974, [5] at Tidworth Camp military hospital, then in Hampshire, England. [6] His mother, Jane Ann Farran (née Amos), started a ski chalet company in the French Alpine resort of Méribel, while his father, Charles Blount, [7] was a cavalry officer in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and then a helicopter pilot, becoming a Colonel in the Army Air ...
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Blount was born circa 1533 in Barnstaple, Devon, the eldest son of Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy (1516–1544) and Ann Willoughby. He inherited his title on the death of his father. He was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Queen Mary (29 September 1553); and was Lord Lieutenant of Dorset in 1559. [1]
The Blounts were a junior part of the family Blount of Sodington of Worcestershire. The first Baron was the great-grandson of Sir John Blount of Sodington and Isolda Mountjoy, and the grandson of Sir Walter Blount, bearer of the Royal Standard of Henry IV at the Battle of Shrewsbury during 1403 where he was slain. [1]
JC Olivera/Getty Images Emily Blunt is just one of her family’s many talented members. Before becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Emily grew up in South West London as the second eldest ...
James Blount or Blunt may also refer to: Sir James Blount (English soldier) (died 1493), sometimes rendered as James Blunt, English military commander; James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy (c.1533–1582), English peer; James G. Blunt (1826–1881), American general; James Blunt (born 1974), British musician, whose given name is James Hillier Blount
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The Blount family was of gentry status but had no real national input until Blount gave birth to Henry Fitzroy, the only acknowledged illegitimate child of Henry VIII. [ 6 ] Little is known of Elizabeth Blount's early years, except for her reputation as a beauty, [ 7 ] and for her famous affair with King Henry VIII (born 1491; he was about ...