Blake Baronets

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The Baronetcy of Blake of Twizell Castle was created in the Baronetcy of Great Britain on 25 May 1774 for Francis Blake of Ford and Twizell, Northumberland

Sir Francis Blake (d.1717) of Cogges, Oxfordshire married Elizabeth Carr of Ford Castle, Ford, Northumberland and bought Twizell Castle, Twizell, Northumberland in 1685. He had no son but seven daughters the eldest being Sarah who married a distant cousin Robert Blake of Menlough (1697–1734). Their eldest son Francis was born in 1709.

The Baronetcy became extinct on the death of Sir Francis Blake, 3rd Baronet in 1860. His estates at Twizell and Tillmouth fell to a relative, also Francis Blake, for whose son, Francis Douglas Blake, the Baronetcy of Blake of Tillmouth Park was created in the Baronetcy of the United Kingdom on 22 July 1907.

[edit] Blake of Twizell Castle (1774)

• Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet (c1709–1780)
• Sir Francis Blake, 2nd Baronet (c1737–1818)
• Sir Francis Blake, 3rd Baronet (c1774–1860)

[edit] Blake of Tillmouth Park (1907)

• Sir Francis Douglas Blake, 1st Baronet (1856–1940)
• Sir Francis Edward Colquhoun Blake, 2nd Baronet (1893–1950)
• Sir Francis Michael Blake, 3rd Baronet (b1943)

[edit] References

• History and Antiquities of North Durham (1852) Rev James Raine MA, page 316.
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Baronetage Page.