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).
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.
BLAGDEN, Isa Jane. Lived at Florence 1849 to death; great friend of Mrs. Theodosia Trollope and of Mrs. E. B. Browning both of whom she nursed in their last illnesses; author of Agnes Tremorne 2 vols. 1861; The cost of a secret 3 vols. 1863; The woman I loved and the woman who loved me 1865; The crown of a life 1869. d. Florence 26 Jany. 1873. Poems by the late Isa Blagden with a memoir 1873.
BLAGDEN, Richard (youngest son of Richard Bragg Blagden of Petworlh, Sussex, surgeon). M.R.C.S. 1811, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in London 1814–54; surgeon to Duchess of Kent 1828 to death; surgeon accoucheur to Queen Victoria 1840 to death; F.R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1839, served on the council 1847–48. d. Percy place, Bath 31 March 1861 aged 72.