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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.

BLIGH, RICHARD, son of Richard Bligh (qv); b. 26 Feb 1819; adm. 30 Mar 1829; living in New South Wales, Australia, by 1847; m. 16 Feb 1847 Maria Isabella, dau. of Capt. --- Fennell; d. at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 20 Aug 1869.

BLIGH, RICHARD, second son of John Bligh, Abingdon Street, Westminster, Secretary of the Chelsea Waterworks, and his first wife Lucy, dau. of William Shuter, London; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1795; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1799, adm. pens. 6 May 1799, scholar 25 Apr 1800, matr. Mich. 1800; BA 1803; MA 1806; adm. Inner Temple 22 May 1799, called to bar 1 May 1807; Oxford and Bucks Sessions; equity draughtsman; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Nov 1826; author, Reports on Cases heard in the House of Lords on Appeals and Writs of Error, 1823, and other works; m. 29 Nov 1817 his cousin Harriet Maria, third dau. of Adm. William Bligh, Governor of New South Wales, of Farningham, Kent; d. Sep 1838. DNB.

BLIGH, ROBERT, third son of Thomas Bligh, MP (I), Athboy, co. Meath, and Elizabeth, youngest d. of Col. James Napier, Loughcrew, co. Meath; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1716; in under school list 1718; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Jun 1721; BA 1725 (incorp. Dublin 1725); Trinity Coll. Dublin, MA 1728; ordained; Vicar of Timoleague and Lislee, co. Cork, from 5 Apr 1735; Rector of Killsillagh, co. Cork, from 28 Oct 1736; Rector of Kilmaloda, co. Cork, from 16 Oct 1746; Prebendary of Ross from 5 Apr 1735; Dean of Elphin from 20 Aug 1768; m. 1st, Jul 1742, Catherine, widow of Charles Boyle, Arraghlin Bridge, co. Cork, and dau. of --- Elliot; m. 2nd, 18 Mar 1759 Frances Winthrop, London; d. Jun 1779.

Bliss, Douglas Arthur, son of Herbert Alfred Bliss ACA, of Norbury, and Janet Ellen, d. of Walter McDougall of Streatham; b. 31 May 1916; adm. Jan. 1930 (R); left July 1934; Gloster Regt 1940-5 (Maj.), despatches (NW Europe) May 1945; RAF Regt 1950, Sqdn Ldr 1952, retd Mar. 1958; m. 22 Jan. 1955 Madeleine Winifred, d. of G. W. Webb of Epsom Downs, Surrey; d. Oct. 2006.

Bliss, John Mac Humberstone, brother of Douglas Arthur Bliss (qv); b. 4 Oct. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (R); left July 1938; RE in WW2; St John's Coll. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1948; asst master Brentwood Sch. 1949; Allhallows Sch., Devon, 1949- 71, housemaster 1958-71; d. 6 Nov. 2003.

Blizard, Gray Percy, son of George Blizard, of London, architect; b. Aug. 2, 1889; adm. Jan. 16, 1902 (A); migrated up Rigaud's; left Easter 1903; readm; Sept. 28, 1905; left Dec. 1907; served as a gunner in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Great War I.

BLIZARD, JEREMIAH, elder son of Stephen Blizard (qv); bapt. St. George, Antigua 2 Mar 1734; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1747/8 (Morel's); left 1751; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Sep 1751; adm. Gray’s Inn 28 Mar 1753; returned to Antigua, where he became a member of the Assembly; m. 1st, 17 Jul 1759 (IGI) Ann, dau. of Col. John Gunthorpe, a member of the Council of Antigua; m. 2nd, Mary ---; d. in the lifetime of his father.

BLIZARD, STEPHEN, son of Jeremiah Blizard, St. John’s, Antigua, a member of the Council of Antigua, and his second wife Anne Lavington; b.; adm. (aged 15) Oct 1717; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1720; Judge of Court of Common Pleas, Antigua; m. 1 Oct 1724 Jane, sister of Nelmes Kerby (qv); d. 24 Nov 1777.