General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . f belles-lettres, in 1726, under thetitle of Le Directeur des Ames —A. BLOUNT, Charles, lord Mountjoy, andearl of Devonshire, a soldier and statesman ofeminence in the reigns of Elizabeth and JamesI was the second son of James lord Mount-joy, and was born in 1563. After an educa-tion at Oxford and the Inner Temple, he ap-peared at court in his twentieth year, wherethe uncommon beauty of his person
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . f belles-lettres, in 1726, under thetitle of Le Directeur des Ames —A. BLOUNT, Charles, lord Mountjoy, andearl of Devonshire, a soldier and statesman ofeminence in the reigns of Elizabeth and JamesI was the second son of James lord Mount-joy, and was born in 1563. After an educa-tion at Oxford and the Inner Temple, he ap-peared at court in his twentieth year, wherethe uncommon beauty of his person caused himto be graciously distinguished by queen Eliza-beth, who ever showed great sensibility towardsthat kind of excellence. He was then the cadetof an honourable, but impoverished house ;such, however, was his interest, that he gotinto parliament for two western boroughs, andwas knighted. He was one of the spiritedyoung noblemen who, in 1588, fitted out shipsat their own expence, to engage the Spanisharmada. In 1594 he was made governor ofPortsmouth ; and in that year succeeded, by hisbrothers death, to the peerage, and title ofMountjoy. Having been much addicted to. ^^^^^^^^^^^sr^ffimtsi^ii^
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