Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

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_