BLACHFORD, AUGUSTUS GEORGE. Ensign 24 Foot 12 Nov. 1825; lieut. col. 30 March 1858 to 9 March 1860 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of major general. _d._ Sheringham near Cromer 13 Nov. 1884 aged 78. BLACHFORD, JOHN. _b._ 1790; solicitor in City of London 1818 to death; head of firm of Blachford, Riches and Wood of 25 Abchurch lane to death; vestry clerk of parish of St. James Aldgate 40 years. _d._ 4 Jany. 1886. BLACHLEY, HENRY. 2 Lieutenant R.A. 10 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841 to 4 April 1843 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 27 Feb. 1866. _d._ Banwell, Somerset 13 Aug. 1868. BLACK, ADAM (_son of Charles Black of Edinburgh, builder_). _b._ Charles st. Edin. 20 Feb. 1784; ed. at high sch. Edin.; opened a bookseller’s shop at 57 North bridge, Edin. 1808; published _Edinburgh Review_ 1827 to death, and _Encyclopædia Britannica_, _7 ed. 22 vols._ 1830–42, _8 ed. 22 vols._ 1853–61, wrote many articles in it; master of the Merchant Company Edin. 1831; a member of the town council 1832; lord provost 1843–48; pres. of Philosophical Institution 1845; bought works of Sir Walter Scott on behalf of an association of 60 persons for £27,000 March 1851; M.P. for Edinburgh 9 Feb. 1856 to 6 July 1865; retired from business 1865. _d._ 38 Drummond place, Edin. 24 Jany. 1874. A bronze memorial statue of him in East Prince’s st. gardens was unveiled 3 Nov. 1877. A fine portrait of him by Sir J. W. Gordon is in the council room Edinburgh. _Life of A. Black by A. Nicolson_ 1885; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 179–83, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. viii_, 467 (1865). BLACK, REV. ALEXANDER (_son of John Black of Aberdeen, gardener_). _b._ Aberdeen 1789; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college, B.A. 1807, D.D. May 1824; licensed by presbytery of Aberdeen 9 Feb. 1814; minister of Tarves Nov. 1817 to 27 June 1832; ordained 1 April 1818; professor of divinity in Marischal college Aberdeen April 1832 to 1843 when he joined the Free church at the Disruption; sent to the East to make enquiries as to expediency of beginning a mission to the Jews 1839; professor of exegetical theology in New college Edinburgh about 1844–1856. _d._ Edinburgh 24 or 27 Jany. 1864 in 75 year.