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).