Kinlet

Kinlet is a civil parish of Shropshire, England. Most of the land within Kinlet, including Kinlet Church and Kinlet Hall, are the inheritance of the Childe family. The Hall had formerly been held by the Blount family and subsequently the Lacon family, and dates back to the Domesday Book. The inheritor (currently decided through the process of the oldest of kin) is known as "Squire".

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Sir George Blount, of Kinlet, Knight, was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1565. In his youth, according to the fashion of the day, he served with distinction in the French and Scottish campaigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, and was well received at the Court of the former, where his eldest sister was in high favour. He died on 20th July, 1581, aged 67, leaving by his wife Constance, daughter of Sir John Talbot, Knight, an only daughter Dorothy, who was thirty years of age and more at the time of her father's death, being then the wife of John Purslowe, of Sidbury, co. Salop, Esq., and afterwards of Edward Bullock, of Bradeley, near Wenlock. In 1581 all the estates were settled upon the said Sir George Blount for the term of his life, and after his death to the said Rowland Lacon and his heirs

—As recorded in The parish of Church Eaton: Little Onn, Staffordshire Historical Collections, vol. 4 (1883), pp. 64-102