BLAINE, DELABERE ROBERTON. _b._ Woodbridge, Suffolk; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields London; barrister M.T. 8 May 1846; revising barrister for Essex 1866–71; judge of Northumberland county court (circuit No. 1) April 1871; transferred to London (circuit No. 43) Nov. 1871; F.R.G.S. 1854; author of _Laws of Artistic copyright and their defects_ 1853; _Suggestions on the copyright bill_ 1861; _d._ Southwick place, Hyde park sq. London 13 Dec. 1871 aged 64. BLAIR, CHARLES EDWARD. L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1836; army surgeon in a Portugese regiment during war between Dom Miguel and Dom Pedro 1833–34; reported in the _Lancet_ the first cases of cholera in London 1832; author of _Lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the teeth_; K.C., K.T.S. _d._ East hill, Colchester 28 Aug. 1855 aged 45. BLAIR, JAMES KENNEDY (_eld. son of James Blair of Weatfield, Belfast_). _b._ Weatfield 9 Dec. 1807; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1835; judge of Court of record for hundred of Salford, Lancashire; joint judge of county courts for circuit No. 6 comprising Liverpool, Ormskirk and St. Helens 22 Oct. 1857 to 28 Feb. 1872 when he resigned. _d._ New Brighton, Cheshire 1 Oct. 1879. BLAIR, STEPHEN. _b._ Bolton 1804; Merchant and bleacher at Bolton; M.P. for Bolton 12 Sep. 1848 to 1 July 1852. _d._ 5 July 1870. BLAKE, BARNETT. Edited _Exeter and Plymouth Gazette_ 1843–52; secretary of Exeter Literary and Scientific Institution 5 years; editor and manager of _Liverpool Standard_; secretary of Yorkshire Union of Mechanics’ Institutes 1856 to death. _d._ of typhus fever at Beeston near Leeds 14 March 1866 aged 54. BLAKE, EDWARD SAMUEL. Colonel in Bombay artillery 29 May 1861 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ 18 Princes sq. Bayswater, London 26 June 1862 aged 51. BLAKE, SIR FRANCIS, 3 Baronet. _b._ Heston, Middlesex 1774; succeeded 22 May 1818; M.P. for Berwick 29 March 1827 to 29 Dec. 1834. _d._ 10 Sep. 1860. BLAKE, FREDERICK RODOLPH (_son of Wm. Blake of Danesbury who d. 24 Nov. 1852_). _b._ 15 Aug. 1808; ensign 85 Foot 30 June 1825; lieut. col. 33 Foot 3 Oct. 1848 to death; served at battle of the Alma and before Sebastopol; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Rottingdean, Sussex 23 Aug. 1855. BLAKE, REV. GEORGE BANNERMAN. _b._ Aberdeen; ed. at Marischal college Aberdeen; studied theology at New college Edinburgh; M.A. 1854; licensed by Presbytery of Edin. 1855; assistant pastor of St. George’s presbyterian church Sunderland July 1856, junior minister 9 July 1857 to death, ordained 9 July 1857; founded Ropery lane mission, Sunderland March 1859. _d._ Sunderland 29 Aug. 1863 aged 32. _A memorial sketch of the late Rev. G. B. Blake with a selection from his sermons_ 1864, _portrait_.