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_