BLOUNT, SIR THOMAS POPE English author, eldest son of Sir Henry Blount and brother of Charles Blount (q.v.), was born at Upper Holloway. He represented the borough of St. Albans in the two last parliaments of Charles II., and was knight of the shire from the revolution till his death. He was created a baronet in 1679. His Censura celebrorum authorum (1690) was originally compiled for Blount's own use, and is a dictionary, in chronological order, of what various eminent writers have said about one another. It was published at Geneva in 1694 with all the quotations from modern languages translated into Latin, and again in 1710. His other works are A Natural History, containing many not common observations extracted out of the best modern writers (1693) , De re poetica, or remarks upon Poetry, with Characters and Censures of the most considerable Poets . . . (1694), and Essays on Several Occasions (1692). It is on this last work that his claims to be regarded as an original writer rest. Blount displays throughout a hatred of pedantry and convention, which makes his book still interesting.