Blount was born in
Lambeth in 1850. Her parents were Elizabeth Ann (born Mould) and James Zacharias Williams, who was a keen supporter of London clubs. She was tutored at home. She developed wide interests in art, science, social responsibility, and London's society and
intelligentsia. She married
Sir Walter de Sodington Blount, 9th Baronet, and they raised a family at the family seat of
Mawley Hall. She would spend time there and at their house in London where she was a fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature and the
Society of Antiquaries. The society published a magazine,
The Earth Not a Globe Review, and remained active well into the early 20th century. A flat Earth journal,
Earth: A Monthly Magazine of Sense and Science, was published between 1901 and 1904, edited by Lady Blount. In 1898 she published a novel titled ''Adrian Galilio, or a Song Writer's Story''. The
Flat Earth Society says that it concerns "an aristocrat who escapes her unhappy marriage and reinvents herself as a world-famous Flat Earth proponent who 'tours Europe giving elaborate lectures on cosmology, the creation, true love and hell.'" Blount and her husband wanted to provide evidence of the earth's flat surface and they created
experiments on the Old Bedford Level Canal over several weeks. On 11 May 1904, Lady Blount hired a photographer to use a telephoto-lens camera to take a picture from Welney of a large white sheet, which she had placed the bottom edge near the surface of the river at Rowbotham's original position away. The photographer, Edgar Clifton from
Dallmeyer's studio, mounted his camera above the water at Welney and was surprised to be able to obtain a picture of the target, which he believed should have been invisible to him, given the low mounting point of the camera. Lady Blount published the pictures far and wide. Blount's letter did not discuss the effects of
atmospheric refraction but the photographer noted a mirage which he described as "an aqueous shimmering vapour [appearing] to float unevenly on the surface of the canal." When she was 73, on 28 August 1923, she married again to a builder and evangelist named Stephen Morgan who was forty years younger than her. She was a member of the "Society for the Protection of the Dark Races" and she gave that her active support. Blount died in
Hayling Island. ==See also==