Blount

Blount, CHARLES, deist, was born at Upper Holloway, London, 27th April 1654. He became noted for his contributions (often but flippant) to the political, literary, and theological controversies of the times, some of his works being Anima Mundi, a translation of the first two books of Apollonius Tyaneus, Great is Diana of the Ephesians, Janua Scientiarum, and Vindication of Learning. His miscellaneous works, with preface by Gildon, appeared in 1695. Despairing of marriage with his deceased wife's sister, he died by his own hand in 1693. The material of Blount's volumes was chiefly borrowed from other writers; but his contributions to freethought had an influence on the deistical movement.