Richard Blount (other)
Richard Blount may refer to: *Richard Blount (priest) (1565–1638), English priest and Jesuit * Richard Blount (died 1556), Member of Parliament (MP) for Calais *Sir Richard Blount (died 1564), MP for Steyning * Richard Blount (died 1575), MP for Taunton * Richard Blount (MP for Chipping Wycombe) (died 1628), MP for Chipping Wycombe High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe ( ), is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England. Lying in the valley of the River Wye, Buckinghamshire, River Wye surrounded by the Chiltern Hills, it is west-northwest of Charing Cross in London, ... * Richard Blount (MP for Lymington) (died 1628), MP for Lymington See also * Richard Blunt (other), same pronunciation {{hndis, Blount, Richard ...
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Richard Blount (priest)
Richard Blount, S.J. (1565–1638) was an English priest and the first Jesuit Provincial of England after the Elizabethan Laws were passed. Biography Early life Richard was born into the Leicestershire branch of the Blount Family in 1565. He attended school at Balliol College, Oxford. Afterward he went to Trinity for his university studies, but left shortly after arriving having converted to Catholicism. He travelled to the English College at Douai in the Spanish Netherlands, arriving on 22 July 1583. The college was temporarily in Rheims due to ongoing conflict in Douai. In 1584 he continued on to the English College, Rome. Priesthood After five years at the English College in Rome, Blount was ordained a priest in 1589. He worked with Father Robert Parsons, S.J. to smuggle himself back into England in 1591 posing as returning sailor prisoners-of-war from the failed expedition against Spain by the Earl of Essex. He was taken before the Lord High Admiral Howard of Effingham t ...
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