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 other objects of art of aboriginal inhabitants of America to city of Salisbury 1863 which formed nucleus of the Blackmore museum, Salisbury; member of Ethnological society of London 1866; member of council of Anthropological society 21 Jany. 1871 on its amalgamation with Ethnological society, and vice pres. 1872. _d._ Belgrave mansions, Grosvenor gardens, London 12 April 1878. BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM SEYMOUR. _b._ 30 Oct. 1809; M.P. for Wallingford, Berkshire 11 Dec. 1832 to July 1852. _d._ 6 Jany. 1881. BLACKWALL, JOHN (_son of Mr. Blackwall of Manchester, importer of Irish linen_). _b._ St. Anne’s square, Manchester 20 Jany. 1790; partner with his father to 1833; lived at Llanrwst, North Wales 1842 to death; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society; F.L.S. April 1827; author of _Researches in Zoology_ 1834, _2 ed._ 1873; _A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland_, _2 parts_ 1861–64, published by the Ray Society; wrote 82 papers in natural history periodicals 1821–71. _d._ Hendre house, Llanrwst 11 May 1881. _Entomologist xiv_, 145–50, 190 (1881). BLACKWELL, THOMAS. Partner with E. Crosse as oilmen at 11 King st. Soho, London 1829, this was oldest house of the kind in London having been founded 1706; moved to Soho square 1840; began manufacture of jams 1841 and of table jellies 1850. _d._ Brookshill, Harrow Weald 16 Dec. 1879. Will proved 6 March 1880, Personalty sworn under £160,000. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_, 174–88 (1865).