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Nobility

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Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet, of Twizell Castle Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet, FRS (27 April 1709 – 29 March 1780) was a Northumbrian landowner who was created 1st Baronet of Twizell in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 25 May 1774. Life He was the grandson of Sir Francis Blake, Knt., of ...
(1709–1780), Northumbrian landowner *
Sir Francis Blake, 2nd Baronet, of Twizell Castle Sir Francis Blake (c.1737 – 22 May 1818) was a High Sheriff of Northumberland (1784), a major land owner of that county, and a political writer. He succeeded to the Baronetcy of Twizell Castle on the death of his father Sir Francis Blake, 1st Ba ...
(c. 1737–1818), Northumbrian landowner and political writer *
Sir Francis Blake, 3rd Baronet, of Twizell Castle Sir Francis Blake, 3rd Baronet (c. 1774 – 10 September 1860) was a landowner, politician and baronet of Northumberland, England. Background Born at Heston, he was the son of Sir Francis Blake, 2nd Baronet and his wife, the daughter of Alexander ...
(c. 1774–1860), Northumbrian landowner and politician *
Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet, of Tillmouth Park Sir Francis Douglas Blake, 1st Baronet, CB, DL (27 February 1856 – 5 February 1940) was Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland, Vice Lord Lieutenant in 1920 and 1931, a Justice of the Peace, and a Member of Parliament. The son of Francis Blak ...
(1856–1940), Member of Parliament *
Sir Francis Blake, 2nd Baronet, of Tillmouth Park ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...
(1893–1950)


Science and medicine

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Francis Blake (telephone) Francis Blake Jr. (December 25, 1850 – January 20, 1913) was an American inventor. Biography Francis Blake was born in Needham, Massachusetts on December 25, 1850, the son of Caroline Burling (Trumbull) and Francis Blake, Sr. In 1879, he inv ...
(1850–1913), American engineer who improved the carbon microphone for telephone use *
Francis Claude Blake Francis Claude Blake was a British engineer, known for his pioneering work designing and manufacturing cars, boats and railway locomotives. He was a member of the Institution of Automobile Engineers. Blake was born in Putney in 1867, trained a ...
(1867–?), British engineer *
Francis Gilman Blake Francis Gilman Blake (22 February 1887–1 February 1952) was a leading American immunologist. He served as dean of the Yale University School of Medicine, president of the American Association of Immunologists, and physician-in-chief of the ...
(1887–1952), American immunologist


Others

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Francis Blake (1638–1718) Francis or Frank Blake may refer to: Nobility * Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet, of Twizell Castle (1709–1780), Northumbrian landowner * Sir Francis Blake, 2nd Baronet, of Twizell Castle (c. 1737–1818), Northumbrian landowner and political write ...
, Member of Parliament for
Berwick-Upon-Tweed Berwick-upon-Tweed (), sometimes known as Berwick-on-Tweed or simply Berwick, is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, and the northernmost town in England. The 2011 United Kingdom census recor ...
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Frank Blake (American football) Frank Blake was a college football coach at Gordon Institute and Mercer. He was a graduate of Vanderbilt University, the brother of Bob Blake and Dan Blake Daniel Bigelow Blake, Jr. (May 22, 1882 – September 7, 1953) was an American foot ...
(fl. 1907–1909), American football coach *
Frank Blake (baseball) Francis "Powerhouse" Blake (September 22, 1910 – date of death unknown) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played with the Baltimore Black Sox in 1932, the New York Black Yankees in 1934, and the New York Cubans The New ...
(1910–?), American baseball player *
Frank Blake Francis Stanton Blake (born July 30, 1949) is an American businessman and lawyer, who was the chairman and CEO of The Home Depot from January 2007 to May 2014. Prior to this he worked for the U.S. Department of Energy and General Electric. He ...
(born 1949), American businessman * Francis Blake, character from the comic series ''
Blake and Mortimer ''Blake and Mortimer'' is a Belgian comics series created by the writer and comics artist Edgar P. Jacobs. It was one of the first series to appear in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Tintin'' in 1946, and was subsequently published in book ...
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See also

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Blake (surname) Blake is a surname which originated from Old English. Its derivation is uncertain; it could come from "blac", a nickname for someone who had dark hair or skin, or from "blaac", a nickname for someone with pale hair or skin. Another theory, presuma ...
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