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BLACKMORE, SIR RICHARD, son of Robert Blackmore, Corsham, Wilts., attorney; b.; at school under Busby (Johnson, Lives of the Poets, ed. G. B. Hill, ii, 235); St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, matr. 19 Mar 1668/9, aged 14; BA 1674; MA 1676; MD Padua; medical practitioner in City of London; FRCP 12 Apr 1687, Censor 1716, Elect 22 Aug 1716 - 22 Oct 1722; Physician in Ordinary to William III 27 Feb 1697 - Mar 1702; knighted 18 Mar 1696/7; author, Creation, a Philosophical Poem demonstrating the Existence and Providence of God, 1712, and many other works; m. Mary --- (“a rich Conventicler” (Hearne, Collections, 21 Apr 1706)); d. 9 Oct 1729. DNB. [Perhaps Richard Blackmore who m. at St. Paul, Covent Garden 9 Feb 1685/6 Mary Adams]

BLACKSTONE (or BLAXTON), HENRY, eldest son of Rev. Henry Blackstone DD, Chancellor of Chichester, and Joan, sister of Sir George Buck, Master of the Revels; b.; at school 2 Jul 1582; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1585, adm. scholar 1586; BA 1589/90; MA 1593; ML 1597; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1591 - res 1597; two Latin letters written by him to William Camden are printed in Camdeni Epistolae, 1691, 44-5, 344-5.

BLACKSTONE (or BLAXTON), JOSHUA, brother of Henry Blackstone (at school 1582, qv); b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1599, adm. scholar 1600; BA 1603/4; MA 1607; BD 1614; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1607 - c. 1614; ordained; Vicar of St. Peter’s, Wisbech, Cambs., from 1612; d. 1615 (will proved PCC 9 Sep 1615, surname given as Blaxton).

BLACKSTONE, HENRY; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1615, adm. scholar 1616.

BLACKSTONE, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jul 1717; in under school list 1721. [Perhaps John Blackston (sic), son of William Blackston, and Ann ---, bapt. St. Faith’s, London 13 Apr 1708 (IGI)]

BLACKWELL, GEORGE GRAHAM, eldest son of Maj. James Blackwell, Whitelocke’s Regt., and Maria Wood; b.; adm. Lady Day 1814; left 19 Mar 1818; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Jun 1819, aged 18; of Ampney Park, Gloucs.; m. 1829 Elizabeth Emma Eardley, elder dau. of Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, Bart.; d. 30 Mar 1838.

BLACKWELL, SIR LAMBERT, BART., only son of Sir Charles Blackwell, Bart., and Anne, dau. of Sir William Clayton, Bart., MP; b.; succ. as 3rd baronet 18 Jul 1741; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1744 (Morel's); left 1750; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 Apr 1750; m. at Rotterdam, Netherlands, 19 Oct 1760 (IGI) Amelia, widow of Michael Pope, Whitsun Court, Bristol, and dau. of Col. --- Martin; d. 9 May 1801.

BLACKWELL, THOMAS WILLIAM; b. 22 May 1808; adm. 9 Oct 1822 (Singleton's).

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BLACKWOOD, JOHN, brother of Shovel Blackwood (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1742 (Bainbrigg's); left 1745; Col. in Dutch service; of Pitreavie, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, and Cheshunt Nunnery, Herts.; m. 22 Jul 1767 Catherine Anne, dau. of William Janssen, Hill Street, St. George’s, Hanover Square; buried Crayford, Kent 14 Dec 1780.