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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.

BLACKWOOD, SHOVEL, son of John Blackwood, Charlton, Kent, merchant, and Anne, widow of Hon. Robert Mansel MP, and dau. of Admiral Sir Cloudisley Shovell MP; half-brother of Thomas Mansel (qv); b.; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1736 (Armfeild's); KS 1743; left 1743; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards, 9 May - 24 Sep 1746; of Howberry, Crayford, Kent, and Pitreavie, Dunfermline, Fifeshire; m. 1767 Sarah, widow of Daniel Rooke (IGI), and dau. of --- Turner; d. 12 May 1810.

BLADEN, MARTIN, son of Nathaniel Bladen, Bolton Percy, Yorks., and Isabella, dau. of Sir William Fairfax, Kt., Steeton, Yorks.; b.; adm.; KS 1695; left 1697; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Apr 1697, aged 16, matr. 1697; adm. Inner Temple, 23 Mar 1696/7; Ensign, Col. T. Fairfax’s Regt. of Foot, 12 Dec 1697; Ensign of a company added to this Regt. in Ireland, 1 Mar 1702; Capt., Sir Charles Hotham’s new Regt. of Foot, 25 Mar 1705; served in Low Countries and Spain; ADC to Lord Galway; attained rank of Brevet Col.; Col. of a British Regt. raised in Spain, 26 Oct 1709; sold out 26 Jun 1710; Comptroller of the Mint, 23 Dec 1714-27; MP Stockbridge 1715-34, Maldon 1734-41, Portsmouth from 1741; Joint Secretary to Lord Justices of Ireland and to Lord Lieut. of Ireland Sep 1715 - Apr 1717; MP (I) Bandon Bridge 1715-27; Privy Councillor (I) 1 Nov 1715; director, Royal African Company, 1717-26; a Commissioner of Trade and Plantations from 13 Jul 1717; Joint Commissioner to Court of France for settling plantation boundaries in America, 1719-20; First Commissioner and Plenipotentiary to the Conference for settling commerce at Antwerp, Jun 1732 - Feb 1742; one of Sir Robert Walpole’s steadiest supporters in the House of Commons; author of Solon (a tragi-comedy), 1705, and of an English translation of Caesar’s Commentaries, 1712; m. 1st, Mary, dau. of Col. --- Gibbs; m. 2nd, 29 Mar 1728 Frances, widow of John Foche, Aldborough Hatch, Essex, and niece of Col. Joseph Jory, West India merchant; d. 15 Feb 1745/6. DNB.

BLAGDEN, HENRY, son of John James Blagden, Petworth, Sussex, surgeon, and Harriet Ayling (IGI); b. 25 Oct 1832; adm. 27 Sep 1844 (Benthall's); QS (Capt. ) 1847; Capt. of the School 184 (?) [check]; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1851, adm. pens. 30 May 1851, scholar 1852, matr. Mich. 1851; BA 1855; MA 1858; ordained deacon 1855, priest 1856 (both Ely); held curacies 1855-69; Vicar of Hughenden, Bucks., 1869-93; Hon. Canon, Christ Church, from 1892; m. Isabella Catherine, second dau. of James Searight, Lancaster Gate, Bayswater, London; d. 16 Dec 1922.

BLAIKIE, JOHN ROBERT, son of Robert Blaikie MRCS LSA, Oswestry, Shropshire, surgeon, and Margaret --- (IGI); b. 26 May 1854; adm. 24 Jan 1868 (James'); QS 1869; left Aug 1871; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 9 Oct 1871, matr. Mich. 1871; BA 1875; a medical student in Dublin; d. at Dublin 23 Dec 1876.

Blair, Alec Michael Ambler, son of Alec Hood Blair, of Westminster, and Grace Evelyn, d. of John Ambler of Bradford, Yorks; b. 10 Jan. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (A); left July 1937; Worcester Coll. Oxf., matric. 1938; d. 1970.

Blair, Charles James Longworth, son of Charles Samuel Blair, M. D., F.R.C.S., of Claygate, Surrey, by Mary Alice, daughter of James Henry Longworth, of Fulwood, Lancs; b. June 21, 1893; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (A); left July 1912; served as temp. Surgeon-Lieut. in the Navy during Great War I 1917-8; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1917; in practice as an ophthalmic surgeon in London and at the Royal Hospital, Richmond, Surrey; m. Dec. 27, 1918, Lilian Edith Berry, daughter of William Frederick Steege, of Twickenham, Middlesex.

Blair, John Herbert, son of Rev. Arthur Austin Blair, Rector of Saxlingham, Norfolk, and Agnes Sarah, d. of Orlando Edmonds of Stamford, Lincs; b. 3 May 1904; adm. Sept. 1918 (KS); left July 1923; Keble Coll. Oxf., matric. 1923, BA 1926, MA 1963·, Superintendent of Education, Nige­ria, 1926-8; Nigerian Admin. Service 1928, asst District Officer 1929, DO 1936, sen. DO 1945; Resident 1947; member House of Assembly, W. Nigeria 1947-9; Legislative Council of Nigeria 1948-9; The Nigeria Regt WAF 1942 (Maj.), MEF 1942-5; ED 1942; farming at Torbay, W. Aus­tralia 1951-60; classics master Scotch Coll. Perth, W. Australia 196I -9; m. 14 July 1934 Mary Geraldine, d. of F. J. Stanes of Coimbatore, S. India; d. 24 Sept. 1998.

Blake, Edmund Vernon Brodie, son of Edward Blake, M. D., of Hampstead, by A. Madeleine Hanson; b. Sept. 22, 1875; adm. from Univ. Coll. School Sept. 1889 (G); left Nov. 1889; King's Coll. and Univ. Coll. London; studied art in Paris; painter and sculptor; author of Relation in Art (1925) and other works; m. Marie Bonnin; d. at Avignon April 19, 1920.

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.