John Aloysius Blake (1826 – 22 May 1887) was an Irish

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and

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. He sat in the House of Commons of the

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for Waterford County, Waterford City and County Carlow.''The Times'', 24 May 1887. Blake was elected for

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in 1857 and remained as member for that constituency until 1869; from 1880 to 1884 he was member for

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; and in 1886 he was elected unopposed for County Carlow, in a by-election and held the seat, again unopposed, in the general election later that year. Described as "one of the most moderate members of the Irish Nationalist party", Blake was chairman of the Fishery Harbours Commission for Ireland. He took an interest in issues of mental health, and wrote pamphlets urging improvements in the treatment of the mentally ill.

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Works by John Aloysius Blake in the National Library of Ireland
1826 births 1887 deaths Irish Parliamentary Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Carlow constituencies (1801–1922) Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Waterford constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1886–1892 {{Ireland-UK-MP-stub