page_title: Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport
hierarchical_section_title: Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport
caption_attribution_description: Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport; George Goring, Baron Goring
context_page_description: Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport, created Baron Mountjoy in the Irish peerage, Baron Mountjoy of Thurveston in the English peerage and Earl of Newport was appointed master of ordnance to Charles I of England and played an ambiguous part in the early years of the English Civil War.
context_section_description: 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 England (1634) and played an ambiguous part in the early years of the English Civil War.
caption: The Earl of Newport: detail from a double portrait with Baron Goring by Sir Anthony van Dyck.
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