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Blee, David Michael Vaughan, son of David Blee CBE, man. dir. LMR British Rail, of Slough, Bucks, and Catherine Rosetta, d. of Edward Vaughan, railway official; b. 2 Feb. 1931; adm. Sept. 1945 (G); left July 1949; Emmanuel Coll. Camb., matric. 1950, BA 1953, MA 1957; a schoolmaster, HM Eylesden Court Sch. 1962-7, Tormore Sch. 1967-74, Cathedral Sch. Salisbury 1974-96; chmn. Choir Schools’ Assn. 1982; m. 2 Apr. 1960 Sheila Mary, d. of Ralph Bentley, chartered accountant, of Curdridge, Hants; d. 22 July 2000.

BLENMAN, JOHN COBHAM, brother of Timothy Blenman (adm. 1809, qv); bapt. St. Michael, Barbados 16 Apr 1798 (IGI); adm. 18 Sep 1809; in school list Oct 1814; d. 12 Apr 1828, aged 30.

BLENMAN, TIMOTHY, brother of William Blenman (qv); bapt. St. Michael, Barbados 2 Apr 1724 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Oct 1733; left 1741; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1741; adm. Gray’s Inn 22 Jan 1741/2; living 1772.

BLENMAN, TIMOTHY, second son of Jonathan Blenman, Solicitor-Gen. and Judge of Vice-Admiralty, Barbados, and Anna Maria Cobham; grandson of William Blenman (qv); bapt. St. Michael, Barbados 14 Jan 1796 (IGI); adm. 18 Sep 1809; left 1811; d. 28 Dec 1829, aged 35.

BLENMAN, WILLIAM, elder son of Jonathan Blenman, Attorney-Gen. and Judge of the Admiralty, Barbados, and Mary ---; bapt. St. Michael, Barbados 28 Jan 1721 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Oct 1733; left 1739; Trin. Hall, Camb., adm. pens. 12 Apr 1740; adm. Middle Temple 29 Sep 1739, called to bar 6 Feb 1746/7; Clerk to Clerks Comptroller, Board of Green Cloth Jul 1761 - retired 1 Jul 1782; Watchman at St. James’s Palace; m. 1748 Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Dottin, Barbados; living 17 Jan 1798 (dead by 13 Jul 1800). [presumably William Blenman, Bath, Somerset, will proved PCC 13 Aug 1800]

BLENNERHASSET, HARMAN, youngest son of Conway Blennerhasset, Conway Castle, Killorglin, co. Kerry, and Elizabeth, dau. of Maj. Thomas Lacy; b. 8 Oct 1765; adm. 2 Nov 1781; left 1782; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 7 Jul 1783, aged 18; BA and LLB 1790; adm. Middle Temple 17 May 1784; adm. King’s Inns 1790; went in 1796 to USA on account of his strong Republican sympathies; settled in Ohio; implicated in the treasonable schemes of Aaron Burr, arrested spring 1807 but subsequently released; his house was pillaged by the mob during his absence; endeavoured to grow cotton near Gibsonport, Mississippi; practised as a lawyer in Montreal, Canada, 1819-22; returned to Ireland, and subsequently retired to Guernsey; m. his niece Margaret, dau. of Robert Agnew, Howlish, co. Durham; d. 1 Feb 1831. DNB.

BLICK, STEPHEN, son of Nicholas Blick, London; b. ; at school under Freind (W. W. R. Ball & J. A. Venn, eds. , Admissions to Trin. Coll. Camb. , iii, 52); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jul 1716, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1718, matr. 1716. [note Nicholas Blick, St. George, Hanover Square, Middlesex, joiner, will proved PCC 30 Aug 1726]

BLIGH, ANTHONY, brother of Robert Bligh (qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1716; in under school list 1718; entered Army as Lieut., 7th Foot, 4 Nov 1724; 12th Dragoons, 1 Jul 1734; d. unm. 13 Jan 1737.

BLIGH, EDWARD, 2ND EARL OF DARNLEY (I), eldest surviving son of John Bligh, 1st Earl of Darnley (I), and Lady Theodosia Hyde, Baroness Clifton, only dau. of Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon PC; b. 9 Nov 1715; adm. Jul 1722; succ. his mother as 11th Baron Clifton (E) 30 Jul 1722 and his father as 2nd Earl of Darnley (I) 12 Sep 1728; in school list 1729; took his seat in House of Lords 1 Feb 1736/7, and in Irish House of Lords 4 Oct 1737; FRS 9 Feb 1737/8; Lord of the Bedchamber to Prince of Wales from 29 Oct 1742; d. unm. 22 Jul 1747; buried in North Ambulatory, Westminster Abbey.

BLIGH, JOHN, 3RD EARL OF DARNLEY (I), brother of Edward Bligh, 2nd Earl of Darnley (qv); b. 1 Oct 1719; adm. Jan 1726/7; in school list 1729; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 May 1735; MA 1738; Grand Tour (Italy) 1739-41; MP (I) Athboy 1739-47; MP Maidstone 1741-7; succ. his brother as 3rd Earl of Darnley 22 Jul 1747; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1742; of Cobham Hall, Kent; m. 11 Sep 1766 Mary, dau. of John Stoyte, Street, co. Westmeath, barrister; d. 31 Jul 1781.