John Frederick Blake (3 April 1839 – 7 July 1906) was a British

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, althou ...

and Anglican

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. Blake received B.A. 1862 and M.A. 1865 from

Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...

. He was ordained a deacon in 1862 and a priest in 1863. He was curate of Lenton,

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, from 1862 to 1864 and curate of St Mary's, Bryanston Square, London, from 1864 to 1865. He was Professor of Natural Science at University College, Nottingham, from 1881 to 1888. In 1895 he went to India to arrange the

Baroda Museum The Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery in Vadodara was built in 1894 on the lines of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Science Museum of London. Major Mant in association with R.F. Chisholm who refined some of Mant's finest works to make genuin ...

. He married in 1866 and was survived by three sons and a daughter.

Awards and honours

* 1891–1893: President of the

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* 1895:

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* 1906 deaths 1839 births Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge British geologists Lyell Medal winners Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery Presidents of the Geologists' Association {{UK-geologist-stub