The Blount Baronetcy, of Tittenhanger in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of England on 27 January 1680 for Thomas Pope Blount (b. 1649). In the 16th century Elizabeth Blount, daughter of Sir Walter Blount of Blount Hall, Staffordshire (a descendant of the Sodington Blounts), married Sir Thomas Pope of Tittenhanger, Herefordshire. Her nephew Sir Thomas Pope Blount (d. 1638) inherited the estate at Tittenhanger on her death. The first Baronet was the grandson of Sir Thomas and son of the traveller

Sir Henry Blount Sir Henry Blount (1602–1682) was a 17th-century English landowner, traveller and author. Life He was the third son of Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1552–1638) of Blount's Hall, Staffordshire and Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire and was educated at St ...

. He represented

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and

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in the

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. The title became extinct on the death of his grandson, the third Baronet, in 1757.

Blount baronets, of Tittenhanger (1680)

* Sir Thomas Pope Blount, 1st Baronet (1649–1697) *Sir Thomas Pope Blount, 2nd Baronet (1670–1731) *Sir Harry Pope Blount, 3rd Baronet (1702–1757)

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{{reflist Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England 1680 establishments in England 1757 disestablishments in Great Britain

Blount baronets, of Tittenhanger (1680)

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