Birth year 1597 celebrities

Birth year 1597

Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport Facts

Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (c. 1597 – 1666), created Baron Mountjoy in the Irish peerage (1617), baron Mountjoy of Thurveston in the English peerage (1627) and Earl of Newport (1628) was appointed master of ordnance to Charles I of Englan