Henry Blount

Sir Henry Blount (1602–1682) was a 17th-century English landowner, traveller and writer.

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 Albans Free School and Trinity College, Oxford. He travelled extensively in Europe and the Levant and was author of Voyage into the Levant published in London in 1634.

He was knighted in 1639. He served Charles I during the English Civil War and was present at the Battle of Edgehill but he was acquitted by Parliament and later served in 1655 on a commission to consider methods of improving the trade and navigation of the Commonwealth of England.

Blount married Hester Mainwaring, née Wase and had seven sons including Thomas Pope Blount (see Blount baronets) and Charles Blount.