An engineering achievement
The Blackett Level is a substantial mine exploration and drainage system constructed to explore unknown ground in Allendale in Northumberland in northern England.
Sporting Blacketts
Tyler Blackett is a professional football player who formerly played left-back for Nottingham Forest and has represented England at youth international level.
The James Bond connection
In 1939 Ian Fleming (see Wikipedia article), later author of the James Bond (007) spy novels, was recruited into Naval Intelligence and commenced working in Room 39 at The Admiralty, Whitehall, London.
Blacketts of stage and screen
A number of Blacketts have been associated with the stage, movies and television.
A Blackett female pirate
When Arthur Ransome ("AR") wrote his famous “Swallows and Amazons”, published in 1930, he decided to name his best known character, the skipper of the Amazon, Nancy Blackett.