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Robert Blake (27 September 1598 – 7 August 1657) was an English naval officer who served as general at sea and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1656 to 1657. Blake served under Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War and Anglo-Spanish War, and as the commanding Admiral of the State's Navy during the First Anglo-Dutch War.
The practice of burying national figures in the abbey began under Oliver Cromwell with the burial of Admiral Robert Blake, in 1657. [5] The practice spread to include generals, admirals, politicians, doctors and scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton, buried on 4 April 1727 and Charles Darwin, buried on 19 April 1882.
John Oldmixon (1673 – 9 July 1742) was an English historian.. He was a son of John Oldmixon of Oldmixon, Weston-super-Mare in Somerset. [1] He was brought up by the family of Admiral Robert Blake in Bridgwater and later became involved in trade through the port of Bristol.
Robert Blake, Baron Blake (1916–2003), English historian; Robert Pierpont Blake (1886–1950), American Byzantist and Orientalist; Robert R. Blake (1918–2004), American management theoretician, developer of the Managerial Grid Model; Robert Blake, brother of poet William Blake (1757–1827), who William claimed visited him in his dreams
Robert Bowers was convicted in a 2018 anti-Semitic attack that left 11 worshippers dead at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. The mass shooting is considered the deadliest attack on Jews in ...
Robert Blake was born in Brundall, Norwich, the elder son of William Joseph Blake, a schoolmaster, and of Norah Lindley Blake, (née Daynes), the daughter of a leading Norwich solicitor. [2] The family firm was Daynes, Hill & Perks, subsequently acquired by Eversheds. He was said to be related to Admiral Robert Blake, of the Parliamentary navy ...
Roberson was set to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a shaken baby syndrome diagnosis murder conviction on Oct. 17 before the court intervened and a state House committee issued a ...
17 August – Robert Blake, admiral (born 1598) 29 August – John Lilburne, dissenter (born c. 1614) November – John French, physician and chemist (born c. 1616) 20 November – Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1600) 5 December – drowned in shipwreck on the Goodwin Sands: Sir John Reynolds, soldier (born 1625)