Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H. Frederic Boase
John (6th son of Rev. Theophilus Blackall, Preb. of Exeter cath. who d. 4 Aug. 1781). b. St. Paul’s st. Exeter 24 Dec. 1771; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, M.B. 1797, M.D. 1801; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hosp. London; practised at Exeter 1797–1801 and 1807–52; physician to Devon and Exeter hosp. 1 June 1797–1801 when he resigned, and June 1807; practised at Totnes 1801–1807; physician to St. Thomas’s lunatic asylum Exeter 1812; candidate of R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814; fellow 22 Dec. 1815; the chief physician in the West of England 1822–52; author of Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies 1813 4 ed. 1818 which at once placed him in the rank of the first physicians of his day and acquired for him an European reputation. d. Southernhay Exeter 10 Jany. 1860. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians iii, 138–41 (1878), abridged from British Medical Journal i, 75–76 (1860).
BLACKALL, Robert. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel of 43 N.I. 18 July 1848, of 2 European Fusiliers 7 April 1851, and of 13 N.I. 19 Aug. 1859 to death; L.G. 18 Dec. 1860. d. 20 April 1863.
BLACKALL, Samuel Wensley (eld. son of Robert Blackall of Colamber manor, co. Longford who d. 1855). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign 85 Foot 26 June 1827, lieut. 17 Feb. 1832 to 1 Feb. 1833 when he sold out; sheriff of co. Longford 1833, of co. Tyrone 1862; M.P. for co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to April 1851; lieutenant governor of Dominica 1 April 1851 to 1857; governor of Sierra Leone 1862; governor of West African Settlements 23 Feb. 1866; governor of Queensland 4 May 1868 to death. d. Brisbane 21 Jany. 1871.
BLACKBOURN, John (son of James Blackbourn of Billingsgate, London, fish salesman). One of the singing boys of St. Paul’s cathedral 1800–1808, apprenticed to John Sale the master of the boys 1811; organist of Wandsworth parish church 1818–21 and of Clapham parish church 1821 to death; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1818, of the Madrigal Society 1819, of the Glee Club 1819, and secretary to 1825. d. Clapham 18 Dec. 1854 aged 62.
BLACKBURN, Rev. John. b. the Minories, London 1791; ed. at Stepney and Hoxton; a missionary in the Irish Evangelical society; pastor of Church of Christ at Finchingfield, Essex 25 Sep. 1815 to 1822; pastor of Claremont chapel Pentonville, London 1822 to death; editor of Congregational Magazine; originated and edited Congregational Calendar, afterwards merged in the Congregational year book; a projector and sec. of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1831; originator of the Christian Instruction society 1825; edited The Biblical educator. d. 17 Holford sq. Pentonville 16 June 1855. Congregational year book (1856) 208–10; J. Waddington’s Congregational history v, 198–202 (1870).
BLACKBURN, Peter (eld. son of John Blackburn of Killearn near Glasgow). b. Levenside, Dumbartonshire 1811; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 Life Guards 29 Jany. 1830, lieut. 4 May 1832 to 1836; M.P. for Stirlingshire 5 March 1855 to 6 July 1865; a lord of the Treasury 15 March 1859 to June 1859; chairman of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway Sep. 1846 to death. d. Killearn house, Killearn 20 May 1870.
BLACKBURNE, Francis (eld. son of Richard Blackburne of Great Footstown, co. Meath who d. 1798). b. Great Footstown 11 Nov. 1782; entered Trinity college Dublin July 1798, scholar 1801, B.A. 1803, LL.B. and LLD. 1852; called to bar in Ireland Jany. 1805; went the Home circuit; K.C. 1822; administered the Insurrection act in Limerick and Clare 1822–24; serjeant at law July 1826, king’s second serjeant at law 19 April 1830 to Jany. 1831; attorney general in Ireland 11 Jany. 1831 to April 1835 and 23 Sep. 1841 to Oct. 1842; P.C. Ireland 1831; master of the Rolls 1 Nov. 1842 to 23 Jany. 1846; chief justice of Queen’s Bench 23 Jany. 1846 to Feb. 1852; lord chancellor of Ireland Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852 and 24 July 1866 to March 1867; vice chancellor of Univ. of Dub. Dec. 1851; one of Commissioners of National education 1852–53; lord justice of Appeal in Ireland Oct. 1856 to July 1866; offered the Lord Chancellorship by Earl of Derby 24 Feb. 1858 but declined; refused a Baronetcy May 1867. d. Rathfarnham Castle near Dublin 17 Sep. 1867. Life of the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne by his son Edward Blackburne 1874, portrait; O. J. Burke’s History of lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 277–93; Dublin univ. mag. xxiv, 470–78 (1844), portrait; I.L.N. xii, 323 (1848), portrait.
BLACKBURNE, John George. b. London 4 June 1815; articled to Wm. Dunn of Oldham, surveyor 31 May 1828, partner with him 5 June 1835 to 27 June 1840 when he died; practised at Oldham 1835 to death; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1855; F.G.S. 1835; pres. of Manchester district society of surveyors and valuers 1866. d. Dryclough, Oldham 30 Sep. 1871. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 206–209 (1872).
BLACKBURNE, John Ireland. b. 26 May 1783; M.P. for Newton, Lancashire 8 May 1807 to 10 June 1818 and for Warrington 7 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. d. Hale hall near Warrington 27 Jany. 1874.
BLACKER, Rev. George (elder son of James Blacker of Dublin, police magistrate). b. 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1809, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1858; C. of St. Andrew’s, Dublin 1811–38; V. of Maynooth 1838 to death; Preb. of St. Patrick’s cathedral 28 Dec. 1840 to death; author of Castle of Maynooth 1853, 2 ed. 1860; Castle of Kilkea 1860; A record of the history of Maynooth church 1867, all privately printed. d. the Rectory, Maynooth 23 May 1871 in 80 year. Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette xiii, 131 (1871).
BLACKER, William. Ensign 60 Foot 3 July 1801; lieut. col. Armagh militia 5 Nov. 1812 to 6 May 1846; vice treasurer of Ireland 1817–1829. d. Carrick house, Armagh 25 Nov. 1855 aged 80.
BLACKETT, Sir Edward, 6 Baronet. b. London 23 Feb. 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 27 Oct. 1816; sheriff of Northumberland 1833; married 4 times. d. Matfen hall, Northumberland 23 Nov. 1885.
BLACKETT, Henry. Publisher in London with Daniel Hurst (who d. 6 July 1870 aged 67). d. The Green, Ealing 7 March 1871 in 45 year.
BLACKIE, John (son of John Blackie of Glasgow, publisher who d. 17 June 1874 aged 92). b. Glasgow 29 Sep. 1805; ed. at the high school; head of the publishing firm of Blackie and Son in Glasgow and London, with branches in every important town in Scotland; member of Glasgow town council 1857; lord provost 1863; originated the City Improvement scheme. d. Hillhead, Lillybank, Glasgow 11 Feb. 1873. Bookseller 1873 p. 205.
BLACKLEY, Rev. William. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1852; chaplain to Viscount Hill 1837 to death; V. of Stanton-upon-Hine-Heath, Salop 1855–72; author of Expository lectures on the first four chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel 1842; Diplomatic correspondence of the Right Hon. Richard Hill 2 vols. 1845; Scriptural teaching 1847; The Gospel history between the death of Christ and the day of Pentecost 1855. d. Garforth house, Upper Sydenham 29 March 1885 aged 87.
BLACKLOCK, Ambrose. b. Dumfries 1816; Assistant surgeon Madras 8 Feb. 1840; professor of surgery and surgeon of the General hospital Madras 1851, and professor of medicine and physician 1858 to 28 April 1867; went to England on sick leave 29 Aug. 1865; returned to Madras 1868; deputy inspector general of Presidency, Circle and Northern, divisions 4 Aug. 1870 to death; author of A treatise on sheep 1838, 12 ed. 1853. d. of enteritis at Chittoor, Madras 11 Feb. 1873.
BLACKLOCK, William James. b. Cumwhitton near Carlisle about 1815; landscape painter; exhibited pictures at Royal Academy, British Institution and Society of British Artists 1836–55. d. Dumfries 12 March 1858 aged 42. Carlisle Journal 19 March 1858.
BLACKMAN, William. b. Arundel 27 Nov. 1862; ed. at Ardingley college, captain of the cricket eleven 1880, an assistant master 1880; in the Sussex county eleven 17 July 1881 to 1884; one of the best all-round cricketers in South of England. d. 4 Royal terrace, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2 June 1885. Cricket 28 Jany. 1886 p. 1, portrait.
BLACKMORE, Rev. Richard White. Educ. at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1813; chaplain to the Russia company 1819–47; R. of Donhead St. Mary near Salisbury 1847 to death; author of History of the church of Russia 1842; The doctrine of the Russian church 1845. d. Donhead St. Mary rectory 28 June 1882 in 91 year.
BLACKMORE, William. b. Salisbury; admitted solicitor 1849; practised at Liverpool 1856–69; presented his very valuable collection of stone implements and