BLACKWELL, THOMAS EVANS (_son of John Blackwell, civil engineer who d. 1840_). _b._ Devizes 28 July 1819; engineer to Kennet & Avon canal co. 1840; engineer to Bristol docks 1852–57; vice pres. and general manager of grand trunk railway 1857–62; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 1843, M.I.C.E. 1849. _d._ 25 June 1863. BLACKWOOD, ARTHUR JOHNSTONE (_2 son of Sir Henry Blackwood, admiral R.N., 1 Baronet 1770–1832_). _b._ 25 April 1808; clerk in Colonial office April 1824 to May 1867; groom of the privy chamber 1836 to death. _d._ Oakham, Rutland 2 Jany. 1874. BLACKWOOD, FRANCIS PRICE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 25 May 1809; entered navy 6 Dec. 1821; captain 28 June 1838; commanded the Fly surveying vessel on East India station 17 Nov. 1841 to 1846; F.R.A.S. _d._ of cancer in the throat at Richmond 22 March 1854. _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxiv_, 80–81 (1854). BLACKWOOD, GEORGE FREDERICK (_2 son of Wm. Blackwood, major in Bengal army_). _b._ Moradabad, Bengal 1838; ed. at Edinburgh academy and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 11 Dec. 1857; commanded the artillery in the Lushai expedition Nov. 1871; major 10 Feb. 1875; commanded E. battery B. brigade of Royal Horse Artillery in the Afghan campaign 1879 to death; killed at battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, being one of the 11 officers and men who fought till they were all killed. _Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign_ (1882) 20–22, _portrait_. BLACKWOOD, SIR HENRY, 3 Baronet. _b._ 7 May 1828; succeeded 7 Jany. 1851. _d._ Athens 26 May 1854. BLACKWOOD, SIR HENRY MARTIN, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir Henry Blackwood, 1 baronet 1770–1832_). _b._ 11 June 1801; entered navy 22 July 1814; captain 28 April 1827; succeeded his father 14 Dec. 1832; commodore on East India station 29 June 1844; captain of the Fox 14 Oct. 1843 to 5 Aug. 1848. _d._ Portsmouth 7 Jany. 1851. _I.L.N. xviii_, 37 (1851). BLACKWOOD, JOHN (_6 son of William Blackwood of Edinburgh, publisher 1776–1834_). _b._ Edinburgh 7 Dec. 1818; ed. at high school and Univ. Edin.; superintended London branch of his brother Robert’s publishing business 1840–45; partner in the firm 1845; head of the firm 1852 to death; editor of _Blackwood’s Mag._ 1845 to death; published in it George Eliot’s _Scenes of clerical life_, published all her books except _Romola_. _d._ Strathtyrum, St. Andrews 29 Oct. 1879. _The Critic xxi_, 6, 38, 102, 128, 192 _and_ 225 (1860); _George Eliot’s Life by J. W. Cross 3 vols._ 1885; _I.L.N. lxxii_, 461 (1879), _portrait_; _Graphic xx_, 525 (1879), _portrait_.