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Blake, Francis, 1737-1818

  • GB-2014-WSA-03374
  • Person
  • 1737-1818

BLAKE, SIR FRANCIS, BART., second son of Sir Francis Blake, Bart. (adm. 1725, qv); bap 1 Jun 1737; adm. (aged 13) Apr 1751; in school list 1752; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 15 Jan 1756, matr. Easter 1757; LLB 1763; adm. Middle Temple 23 Jun 1755; succ. father as 2nd baronet 29 Mar 1780; High Sheriff Northumberland 1784-5; raised a regiment of infantry called the “Golden Spinks”, and expended £80, 000 on building a castle on the river Till, never finished; author, Political Tracts, 1788; m. 15 Apr 1772 Elizabeth, only dau. of Alexander Douglas, head of British settlement at Bussorah, Persia; d. 2 Jun [22 May ?] 1818. DNB.

Blake, Francis, 1774-1860

  • GB-2014-WSA-03375
  • Person
  • 1774-1860

BLAKE, SIR FRANCIS, BART., eldest son of Sir Francis Blake, Bart. (adm. 1751, qv); b. 14 Aug 1774; adm. 31 Jan 1787; left 7 Jun 1790; afterwards privately educated by Rev. Skynner, Easton; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner, 15 Jun 1792; Col., Northumberland Fencible Infantry; succ. father as 3rd baronet 2 Jun 1818; MP Berwick upon Tweed 1820-6, Mar 1827-34; of Twizel Castle, co. Durham (now Northumberland); m. Jane, dau. of William Neale; d. 10 Sep 1860.

Blake, Francis, ca. 1709-1780

  • GB-2014-WSA-03376
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  • ca. 1709-1780

BLAKE, SIR FRANCIS, BART., only son of Robert Blake, Twizel Castle, Norham, co. Durham (now Northumberland), and Sarah, third dau. of Sir Francis Blake, Kt., Ford Castle, Northumberland; b.; adm. (aged 16) May 1725; Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1725; active supporter of government during Jacobite rising of 1745; FRS 19 Jun 1746; High Sheriff, Northumberland 1772; created baronet 25 May 1774; devoted much of his time to mechanics and experimental philosophy; m. 9 Nov 1732 Isabella, dau. of Samuel Ayton, West Harrington, Houghton-le-Spring, co. Durham; d. 29 Mar 1780. DNB.

Blake, Geoffrey Alan Stanford, 1922-1941

  • GB-2014-WSA-03377
  • Person
  • 1922-1941

Blake, Geoffrey Alan Stanford, son of Henry Edward Blake MRCS, and Gwendoline May, d. of Stanley Stanford of Edgbaston, Warks; b. 18 July 1922; adm. Sept. 1935 (H); left Dec. 1939; RAF (LAC), killed on active service 6 April 1941.

Geoffrey Alan Stanford Blake was born at Lambeth, South London on the 22nd of April 1922 the only son of Dr Henry Edward Blake MRCS and Gwendoline May (nee Stanford) Blake of Edgbaston in Warwickshire and of 98, Gloucester Place, Hyde Park in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1935 to December 1939. He played at goalkeeper for the Football XI in 1939. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and achieved Certificate A in March 1939.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was posted to No. 5 Service Flying Training School based at RAF Tern Hill for pilot training.
At 3.10am on the 6th of April 1941, Geoffrey Blake took off for a solo night training flight in Master Mk I T8569. At the time he had accumulated a total of 45.55 hours of total solo flying time of which 17 hours were on Master aircraft. As the aircraft lifted off it collided with the roof of a hangar, causing the aircraft to crash and burn out, killing him.
His funeral took place on the 10th of April 1941.
The Elizabethan wrote of him: - “Most members of the School will remember well his consistent cheerfulness and the grace and agility with which he kept goal for the School during his last term.”
He is buried at St Peter’s Church, Stoke-Upon-Tern Row F Grave 212.

Blake, Henry, ca. 1727-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-03378
  • Person
  • ca. 1727-?

BLAKE, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 16) Jan 1743/4 (Gibson's); left 1747. [Probably only son of Henry Blake, Lelinch, co. Clare, and Charity, widow of Francis Palmer, and dau. of Maurice Annesley, Rath, co. Meath; adm. Middle Temple 27 Feb 1748/9; of Lelinch]. [Russell Barker and Stenning record that the OW was buried Bromley, Kent 22 May 1780 : but how is it known that the Henry Blake who was buried at Bromley was the OW?]

Blake, John Bradby, 1745-1773

  • GB-2014-WSA-03379
  • Person
  • 1745-1773

BLAKE, JOHN BRADBY, only surviving son of John Blake, Great Parliament Street, Westminster, Capt EIC Maritime Service, and Mary, dau. of Charles Tymewell, Peckham, Surrey; b. 4 Nov 1745; at school in 1755; supercargo, EICS Canton 1766; a naturalist; collected plants and seeds successfully propagated in Britain and its colonies; d. at Canton 16 Nov 1773. DNB.

Blake, John, fl. 1780

  • GB-2014-WSA-03380
  • Person
  • fl. 1780

BLAKE, JOHN; b.; adm. 13 Sep 1775; left Easter 1780.

Blake, Robert Dudley, ca. 1776-1850

  • GB-2014-WSA-03381
  • Person
  • ca. 1776-1850

BLAKE, ROBERT DUDLEY, second son of Sir Francis Blake, Bart. (adm. 1751, qv); b.; adm. 16 Jan 1788; left 7 Jun 1790; Ensign, 68th Foot, 8 Mar 1793; Lieut., 57th Foot, 7 Nov 1793; Capt., 103rd Foot, 21 May 1794; Maj., 18 Sep 1794; Lieut. -Col., Northumberland Fencible Infantry (with permanent rank in Army), 28 Feb 1795; Brevet Col., 29 Apr 1802; Col., 8th Garrison Battalion, 9 Jul 1803; half-pay; Maj. -Gen., 25 Oct 1809; Lieut. -Gen., 4 Jun 1814; Gen., 10 Jan 1837; m. 27 Sep 1819 (IGI) Helen Sheridan, Glasgow, Lanarkshire; d. 16 Feb 1850, aged 74.

Blake, Robert, ca. 1734-1754

  • GB-2014-WSA-03382
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  • ca. 1734-1754

BLAKE, ROBERT, eldest son of Sir Francis Blake, Bart. (adm. 1725, qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1744 (Gibson's); left 1751; Hertford Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Dec 1751; d. 25 Jan 1754; buried in North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

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