Douglas Blackett by Miff Crommelin
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Many members of the family have served in the armed forces, and several became prisoners of war.
In 1942 Sir Charles Douglas Blackett, then a Major in The Queen’s Bays, was serving in the North African desert. On 25 January he was captured during a counter-attack against tanks of Rommel’s Afrika Corps.
Around 1820 Patience Wise Blackett Izard, named after her aunt by marriage,
In 1896 John Joseph Blackett (1875-1931) and his father,
In 1776 Trinity House agreed to allow Captain John Blackett to build at his own expense two lighthouses off the Northumberland coast, one at Farne Island and the other on Staples Island, not far from where in 1838 Grace Darling and her father rowed out to save nine survivors from the SS Forfarshire.
In 1819 William Robinson, the son of Margaret Blackett and William Robinson of Hamsterley, County Durham, mar
On the evening of 22 October 1641 the infant, Henry Blackett, was being put to bed by a servant in Belfast, Ireland, (some sources say