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In 1679 Blount published, anonymously, Anima Mundi, an essay that appeared to review pagan theories of the soul and afterlife.Throughout, Blount says that it is perfectly clear that the soul is immortal and that there is an afterlife, but his statements are made in a way that makes them absurd, and lengthy descriptions of other views are then juxtaposed with patently insincere claims that the ...
Charles Blount was born in 1563, [1] [2] the second son of James, 6th Baron Mountjoy and Catherine, only daughter of Sir Thomas Leigh (Commissioner for Suppression of the Monasteries). Charles Blount was among the most distinguished of the family, succeeding as 8th Baron Mountjoy on the death in 1594 of his unmarried elder brother William, 7th ...
Charles Blount was born on 28 June 1516 in Tournai, where his father, William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy, was governor. His mother was William's second wife, Alice, daughter of Henry Keble, Lord Mayor of London. [1]
Blount was born in Kamptee (now Kamthi), Bombay Presidency, India. His father, Major Charles Hubert Blount (1855–1900), served with the 20th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, and died of dysentery at Wynberg, Cape Town, Cape Colony, during the Second Anglo-Boer War. Blount was the first son of his father's second marriage, to Mary Elizabeth Bell.
A Funeral Poem Upon the Death of the Noble Earl of Devonshire – Valedictory poem upon the death of Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy, who was created the Earl of Devonshire in 1603 and died in 1606. The poem was published, on its own, in the year of Blount's death. A revised version was included in Certain Small Works (1607).
Elizabeth Blount, sister of the 2nd Baron Mountjoy of the 1465 creation, had married the 1st Baron Windsor, and their descendant Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor in the Peerage of Ireland and younger son of the 7th Baron Windsor and 1st Earl of Plymouth, was created Baron Mountjoy in the Peerage of Great Britain during 1712. This title ...
The couple continued to live together as husband and wife with their children until his death a few months later. Blount died on 3 April 1606 [3] and Penelope on 7 July 1607. Penelope's illegitimate children acknowledged by Charles Blount were: [23] [24] Penelope Rich, who, despite her surname, was a daughter of Penelope by Blount
Charles Blount may refer to: Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy (1516–1544), English courtier and patron of learning; Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon (1563–1606), English courtier and soldier; Sir Charles Blount (1568–1600), English soldier, son of Michael Blount; Charles Blount (deist) (1654–1693), British author and activist