Charles Blake (other)

	Charles Blake (other) Charles Blake may refer to: * Charles Blake (divine) (1664–1730), English divine and poet * Charles Blake (surgeon) (1746–1810), British army surgeon * Charles Henry Blake (1794–1872), British businessman in India, later a property developer and railway company director * Charles Blake (chess player) (1880–1961), Anglo-Canadian chess player and lawyer * Charles Edward Blake Sr. (born 1940), American bishop of the Church of God in Christ * Charles Blake (politician) (born 1983), African-American Democratic member of the Arkansas House of Representatives {{hndis, Blake, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Charles Blake (divine) Charles Blake (1664 – 22 November 1730) was an English divine and poet. Biography Blake was born at Reading, Berkshire, being the son of John Blake, ‘gent.,’ of that town. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School and St. John’s College, Oxford, of which he was scholar and afterwards fellow (B.A. 1683, M.A. 1687–8, D.D. 1696). He was domestic chaplain to Sir Sir William Dawes, 3rd Baronet, William Dawes, afterwards bishop of Chester and archbishop of York, who was his close friend. Among his preferments were the rectory of St. Sepulchre’s, London, of Wheldlake in Yorkshire, and of St. Mary's, Hull, and he was successively a prebendary of Chester, a prebendary of York (1716), and archdeacon of York (1720), He died 22 November 1730. He published a small collection of Latin verses, consisting of a translation into Latin of the poem of Musaeus Grammaticus, Musæus on Hero and Leander, and of part of the fifth book of John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost;’ and two ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Charles Blake (surgeon) Charles Blake (13 August 1746 – 22 April 1810) was a British army surgeon with the 34th Foot Regiment as part of the force sent to fight the Americans. Blake arrived in the province of Quebec in the spring of 1776 and was involved in a number of professional roles until after the end of the American Revolutionary War. He remained in Canada when the regiment A regiment is a military unit. Its role and size varies markedly, depending on the country, military service, service, or administrative corps, specialisation. In Middle Ages, Medieval Europe, the term "regiment" denoted any large body of l ... returned home. References * 1746 births 1810 deaths British surgeons Canadian surgeons British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War 18th-century English medical doctors People from Somerset British Army regimental surgeons {{Canada-med-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Charles Henry Blake Charles Henry Blake (1794–1872) was a British indigo planter and industrialist in India, who became a property developer and railway company director in London. Early life He was the son of Benjamin Blake, a sea captain turned indigo planter in Bengal. He spent time in the United Kingdom in the 1820s. From around 1830 to the early 1840s, he prospered as a sugar and rum manufacturer in India. Property developer During the 1850s, Blake was involved in developing the Ladbroke Estate, where he bought speculatively into land holdings from 1850, later acquiring other land on Lansdowne Hill. In 1852 he was living at 15 Devonshire Place, and was a director of the Portsmouth Railway Company. The solicitor Richard Roy was active in legal work on the Estate. Blake had Samuel Walker as partner. Employing capital from his Indian ventures, Blake bought land in London's Notting Hill neighbourhood. He survived financial overstretch to build extensively there, in the Kensington Park area. Ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Charles Blake (chess Player) Charles Blake (12 June 1880 – 18 May 1961) was an Anglo-Canadian chess player and prominent lawyer in Canada.''Who's Who in Canada'', An Illustrated Biographical Record of Men and Women of the Time, Edited by B.M Greene. Published by International Press Limited, Toronto, Canada, 1927, p. 1484 He won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1911, was the chess champion of Western Canada between 1907 and 1910, and was Winnipeg Chess Club Champion, between 1907 and 1910.''The Windsor Star'', Ontario, Canada, 7 January 1930, p. 16 Early life Charles Blake was born in London on 12 June 1880. He was educated at Bedford Modern School. Legal career Blake immigrated to Canada in 1903, read law in Winnipeg, Canada, and was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1909. He practised with Rothwell & Johnson in Winnipeg, between 1909 and 1911, before setting up his own practice in Brandon, Manitoba, in 1912. He moved to Ontario in 1925 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1929 and the British Columbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Charles Edward Blake Sr Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Dragom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]