• Edward Blount (or Blunt) (1562–1632) was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras, noted for his publication, in conjunction...
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    Admiral Sir Keith Edward Blount, KCB, OBE, FRAeS (born 22 June 1966) is a senior Royal Navy officer and pilot, who since July 2023 serves as NATO's Deputy...
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  • Edward Blount may refer to: Edward Blount (1565–1632), English publisher Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy (1464–1475), English peer Edward Blount (MP)...
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    Elizabeth Blount (c. 1498/c. 1500/c. 1502 – 1540), commonly known during her lifetime as Bessie Blount, was a mistress of Henry VIII of England. Blount was...
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  • Edward Blount (18 July 1769 – 20 March 1843) was a British politician, and activist in the cause of civil rights for Roman Catholics. He was a Whig Member...
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    Sir Edward Charles Blount KCB (16 March 1809 – 15 March 1905) was an English banker in Paris and promoter of French railways. Born into a Catholic family...
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    father, Sir Thomas Blount, as Treasurer of Calais in 1460, becoming governor a year later as a reward for service rendered to King Edward IV at the Battle...
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    the Stationers Company who published the book were the booksellers Edward Blount and the father/son team of William and Isaac Jaggard. William Jaggard...
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    Sir Edward Blount, 5th Baronet (c. 1724–1765) Sir Walter Blount, 6th Baronet (died 1785) Sir Walter Blount, 7th Baronet (1768–1803) Sir Edward Blount, 8th...
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  • Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy (1464 – 12 October 1475) was an English peer. Edward Blount was born in 1464 in London, the second son of Sir William...
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  • Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire Edward Blount, publishing partner for the First Folio of the works of Shakespeare Elizabeth Blount (1502–1540), mistress of Henry...
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  • William's underage son, Edward, succeeded as 2nd Baron Mountjoy. When Edward died without male issue on 1 December 1476, John Blount inherited the barony...
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    (booksellers and publishers): William Jaggard, his son Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount. William Aspley and John Smethwick participated in the endeavor as subsidiary...
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    Winter's Tale. Edward Blount entered The Tempest into the Stationers' Register on 8 November 1623. It was one of 16 Shakespeare plays that Blount registered...
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    (see 1598 in poetry); one, printed by Adam Islip for the bookseller Edward Blount, contained only Marlowe's original, while the other, printed by Felix...
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  • Frères of France, N M Rothschild & Sons of London, Charles Laffitte and Edward Blount, and Baron Jean–Henri Hottinguer. Baron James de Rothschild served as...
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    the author of "a new English", as a "raffineur de l'Anglois"; and, as Edward Blount, one of the publishers of his plays, wrote in 1632, "that beautie in...
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    War". Mary Kirkham bequeathed Blagdon to her third son Edward Blount (died 1726). Edward Blount (died 1726) of Blagdon, third son, who inherited his maternal...
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    of the Quarterstaff". George Silver, "Paradoxes of Defence". London: Edward Blount, 1599. Joseph Swetnam, "The Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Science...
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    contrast to Edward. On 26 November 1727 he married Mary Blount (before 1712–27 May 1773), one of the three daughters and heiresses of Edward Blount (d.1726)...
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    Andrew Hadfield noted the contrast the play draws between the saintly King Edward the Confessor of England who has the power of the royal touch to cure scrofula...
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    1885, when it was first organised by Englishman Henry Blount, the son of banker Sir Edward Blount, a financier of railway enterprises in France. The Bazar...
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    in the Pacific Ocean, was named. The youngest of three daughters of Edward Blount (d. 1726) of Blagdon, Paignton in Devon, by his wife Anne Guise, a daughter...
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    fortunes recovered following the English Restoration of 1660. In 1730 Sir Edward Blount commissioned Francis Smith of Warwick to design a new mansion house...
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  • Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor and the Honourable Elizabeth Blount, sister of Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy, hence his choice of title (see also Baron...
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  • Walter Aston Edward Blount Esq. FSA (7 February 1807 – 9 February 1894) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He was born...
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  • James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy (c. 1533 – 1582) was an English peer. Blount was born circa 1533 in Barnstaple, Devon, the eldest son of Charles Blount, 5th...
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    (17 December 1610)—had died in 1623, and his son Isaac died in 1627. Edward Blount, the third major partner, had sold his rights to Shakespearean plays...
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    Sir Walter Blount, 1st Baronet (1594 – 27 August 1654) of Sodington in the parish of Mamble in Worcestershire, was a Member of Parliament for Droitwich...
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    via Wikisource. Shakespeare, William (1623). The Tempest . England: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard – via Wikisource. Sikes, Wirt (1880)....
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