See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

POPE See also:

• BLOUNT (or BLUNT), EDWARD (b. 1565?)
• BLOUNT, CHARLES (1654-1693)
• SIR THOMAS POPE BLOUNT (1649-1697)
• BLOUNT, THOMAS (1618-1679)
• BLOUNT, WILLIAM (1749-1800)

BLOUNT (1649-1697)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English author, eldest son of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• BLOUNT (or BLUNT), EDWARD (b. 1565?)
• BLOUNT, CHARLES (1654-1693)
• BLOUNT, SIR THOMAS POPE (1649-1697)
• BLOUNT, THOMAS (1618-1679)
• BLOUNT, WILLIAM (1749-1800)

Blount and See also:

• BROTHER

brother of See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles Blount (q.v.), was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Upper See also:

• HOLLOWAY, THOMAS (1800-1883)

Holloway on the 12th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1649 . He succeeded to the See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate of Tittenhanger on his See also:

• MOTHER

mother's See also:

• DEATH

death in 1678, and in the following See also:

• YEAR

year was created a See also:

• BARONET

baronet . He represented the See also:

• BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
• BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough of St Albans in the two last parliaments of Charles II. and was See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

knight of the See also:

• SHIRE

shire from the revolution till his death . He married Jane, daughter of Sir Henry See also:

• CAESAR, GAIUS JULIUS (102—44 B.c.)
• CAESAR, SIR JULIUS (1557-1558-1636)

Caesar, by whom he had five sons and nine daughters . He died at Tittenhanger on the 3oth of See also:

• JUNE

June 1697 . His Censura celebrorum authorum sive tractatus in quo See also:

• VARIA (mod. Vicovaro)

varia virorum doctorum de clarissimis cujusque seculi scriptoribus judicia traduntur (169o) was originally compiled for Blount's own use, and is a See also:

• DICTIONARY

dictionary in See also:

• CHRONOLOGICAL

chronological See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of what various eminent writers have said about one another . This necessarily involved enormous labour in Blount's See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time . It was published at See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva in 1694 with all the quotations from See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages translated into Latin, and again in 1710 . His other See also:

• WORKS

works are A Natural See also:

• HISTORY

History, containing many not See also:

• COMMON

common observations extracted out of the best modern writers (1693), De re poetica, or remarks upon See also:

• POETRY

Poetry, with Characters and Censures of the most considerable Poets . . . (1694), and Essays on Several Occasions (1692) . It is on this last See also:

• WORK

work that his claims to be regarded as an See also:

• ORIGINAL

original writer See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest .

The essays See also:

• DEAL

deal with the perversion of learning, a comparison between the ancients and the moderns (to the See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage of the latter), the See also:

• EDUCATION

education of See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, and kindred topics . In the third edition (1697) he added an eighth See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay, on See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion, in which he deprecated the multiplication of ceremonies . He displays throughout a hatred of pedantry and See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

convention, which makes his See also:

• BOOK

book still interesting . See A . See also:

• KIPPIS, ANDREW (1725–1795)

Kippis, Biographia Britannica (1780), vol. ii . For an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of Blount's See also:

• FAMILY

family see See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert Clutterbuck . History and Antiquities of the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

County of See also:

• HERTFORD
• HERTFORD, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Hertford (1815), vol. i. pp . 207-212 .