BLIGH, SIR JOHN DUNCAN (_2 son of John Bligh, 4 Earl of Darnley 1767–1831_). _b._ London 11 Oct. 1798; ed. at Eton, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, B.C.L. 1828, D.C.L. 1836; paid attaché in Paris 9 May 1828; sec. of legation at Florence 30 July 1829; sec. of embassy at The Hague 1 Nov. 1830; Min. plenipo. at The Hague 3 July 1832, at St. Petersburg 7 Sep. 1832, at Stockholm 28 Oct. 1835, and at Hanover 17 April 1838 to 14 June 1856 when he retired; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 30 Sep. 1856. _d._ Sandgate, Kent 8 May 1872. BLIGHT, WILLIAM. Entered navy 9 May 1793; captain 22 July 1830; retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855. _d._ Stonehouse, Plymouth 22 July 1862 aged 77. BLISS, HENRY (_4 son of Jonathan Bliss of New Brunswick_). _b._ New Brunswick; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827, bencher 1850, reader 1863, treasurer 1864; Q.C. 1850; agent in England for Nova Scotia many years; author of _On colonial intercourse_ 1830; _Statistics of the trade, industry and resources of Canada_ 1833; _State trials, specimen of a new edition by N. T. Moile, pseud._ 1838; _Cicero, a drama by N. T. Moile_, 1847; _Robespierre, a tragedy_ 1854. _d._ Folkestone 31 July 1873 aged 76. BLISS, REV. PHILIP (_son of Rev. Philip Bliss 1742–1803 R. of Frampton Cotterell, Gloucs_). _b._ Chipping Sodbury, Gloucs. 21 Dec. 1787; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ 1797–1806 and St. John’s coll. Ox., scholar 1806, law fellow 1809, B.C.L. 1815, D.C.L. 1820; assistant librarian Bodleian library 1810, under librarian July 1822 to Dec. 1828; prepared the first 136 pages of the catalogue issued 1814; C. of Newington, Oxon. 1817 to Feb. 1830; registrar of the University 1824 to April 1853; chaplain at Studley Priory 1830–55; registrar of the University Court 1831; principal of St. Mary hall Ox. April 1848 to death; edited Bishop Earle’s _Microcosmography_ 1811; Anthony à Wood’s _Athenæ Oxonienses and Fasti 4 vols._ 1813–20; _Reliquiæ Hearnianæ the remains of Thomas Hearne 2 vols._ 1857, _2 ed._ 1869 and many other books. _d._ the Lodgings St. Mary Hall, Oxford 18 Nov. 1857. _Dict. of Nat. Biog. v_, 221–22 (1886). BLITZ, ANTONIO. _b._ Deal, Kent 21 June 1810; made his first appearance on the stage as a ventriloquist and conjurer at Hamburg Sep. 1823; performed in all the cities of North Europe; first appeared in England at Dover Dec. 1825, and in London at Coburg theatre, Lent 1828; sailed for New York 1 Aug. 1834; in 1870 there were 13 conjurers travelling in America under assumed name of Blitz. _d._ Philadelphia 28 Jany. 1877. _Fifty years in the magic circle by Signor Blitz_ (1871), _portrait_.