BLAKISTON, SIR MATTHEW, 4 Baronet. _b._ Bath 15 Jany. 1811; ed. at the Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Dub.; succeeded 23 Dec. 1862. _d._ Sandybrooke hall 3 Dec. 1883. BLAKISTON, PEYTON (_youngest child of Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2 baronet 1760–1806_). _b._ 6 Sep. 1801; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; migrated to Em. coll., a Dixie fellow; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827, M.L. 1837, M.D. 1841; C. of Bilton, co. Warwick; V. of Lymington, Hants. 1830–33; studied medicine at Cambridge and Paris; practised at Birmingham, phys. to general hospital 1841; F.R.S. 21 Jany. 1840; F.R.C.P. 1843; practised at St. Leonard’s on Sea 1848–71; author of _On diseases of the Chest_ 1848; _Clinical observations on diseases of the heart_ 1865; _Clinical reminiscences_ 1878. _d._ 140 Harley st. London 17 Dec. 1878. _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii_, 397–99 (1880); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix_, 1–2 (1879). BLAMIRE, GEORGE. Barrister L.I. 25 June 1819; owner of large estates in Cumberland and Glamorganshire; occupied 3 rooms on first floor of 1 Adam st. Adelphi, London 1847 to death; slept in an arm chair last 16 years of his life; found dead in his chair at 1 Adam st. 17 Sep. 1863, having probably died 13 or 14 Sep. aged 75. BLAMIRE, JANE CHRISTIAN (_2 dau. of Wm. Blamire of The Oaks near Dalston, Cumberland, surgeon who d. 29 Jany. 1814_). _b._ The Oaks 20 March 1788; housekeeper to her brother at Thackwood, Cumberland 1813 to 1831; a great philanthropist. _d._ Thackwood 20 Sep. 1857. _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iv_, 117–39 (1873). BLAMIRE, WILLIAM (_only brother of the preceding_). _b._ The Oaks 13 April 1790; ed. at Carlisle and Westminster; entered Ch. Ch. Ox. Oct. 1808, B.A. 1811; a great stock breeder, went to all the fairs in Scotland and North England; sheriff of Cumberland 1828; M.P. for Cumberland 9 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832, for East Cumberland 17 Dec. 1832 to Aug. 1836; made a great speech in House of Commons on Tithe Commutation bill 25 March 1836; Tithe comr. for England and Wales 22 Aug. 1836 to 8 Aug. 1851 when the commission expired after having converted tithes into rent charges amounting to more than £4,000,000 per annum; Copyhold and Tithe comr. 22 June 1841; Inclosure comr. 21 Aug. 1845 to 1860. _d._ Thackwood near Carlisle 12 Jany. 1862. _A biographical sketch of the late W. Blamire by H. Lonsdale, M.D._ 1862.