Elizabethan peer
James Blount was the eldest son of Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy, and Ann Willoughby. He inherited the Mountjoy title on his father’s death.
He was made a Knight of the Bath at Queen Mary’s coronation in 1553 and became Lord Lieutenant of Dorset in 1559. He was also a commissioner for the trial of the Duke of Norfolk in 1572.
His children included William Blount, 7th Baron Mountjoy, and Charles Blount, later 8th Baron Mountjoy and Earl of Devonshire.