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Blakstad, Erik Clark, son of Bjorn Blakstad of West Hartlepool; b. 28 Jan. 1909; adm. Jan. 1923 (R); left Dec. 1925; comm. dir. FPT Industries Ltd (Westland Group); m. 3 Oct. 1939 Kathleen, d. of Capt. T. C. Tose of West Hartlepool, Co. Durham·, d. 11 Mar. 1978.

BLAND, EDWARD, brother of Sir John Bland, Bart. (qv); bapt. 14 Oct 1727; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1736 (Hawkins'); left 1744.

BLAND, SIR HUNGERFORD, BART., brother of Sir John Bland, Bart. (qv); bap 7 Sep 1726; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1736 (Hawkins'); left 1740; adm. Inner Temple 18 Jul 1746; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards, 5 Apr 1748; Lieut., 27 Aug 1753; succ. his brother as 7th baronet 3 Sep 1755; d. unm. 16 Oct 1756.

Bland, James Edward, son of Edward Franklin Bland BS MD, of Chestnut Mill, MA, USA, and Frances, d. of Paul Davenport Poinier of Boston, MA; b. 31 May 1940; adm. from Milton Acad., MA, USA, May 1957 (L); left July 1957; Harvard Univ., grad. multa cum laude June 1962, PhD 1970; asst. Prof, of History, Bowdoin Coll., USA; m. 21 June 1962 Sherrell, d. of Jonathan Brewster Bingham of New York; d. 30 Aug. 1974.

BLANDY, CHAPIN ADDISON, elder surviving son of Alfred Addison Blandy MD, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London, and Ozella Louisa, eldest dau. of Chapin Aaron Harris, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; b. 26 Jun 1855; adm. (G) 1 Feb 1867; left Dec 1873; an invalid; d. 29 Apr 1879.

Blaxland, Athelstan Jasper, son of William Athelstan Blaxland, of West Bournemouth, Hants, by Frances Elizabeth, daughter of William Shears, of Streatham, Surrey; b. Sept. 14, 1880; adm. April 27, 1893 (H); left July 1898; Univ. Coll. Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1904; F.R.C.S. 1908; M.B. (London Univ.) 1904; B. S. 1905; M. S. 1908; in practice at Norwich; Capt. R.A.M.C. (T. F.) March 26, 1915; Major Jan. 4, 1918: served in France March 1915 to March 1919 as Surgeon Specialist to Casualty Clearing Stations; m. Nov. 6. 1912, Anna Marion, daughter of William Andrews, of Chediston, Suffolk; d. 7 December 1963.

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.

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.

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.