Blackett or Blacket is a surname of English derivation.
People
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Andrea Blackett
Andrea Melissa Blackett (born 24 January 1976) is a Barbadian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles. She is also a women's track assistant coach at her alma mater, Rice University.
Her greatest achievement in athletics is the gold ...
(born 1976), Barbadian athlete
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Basil Phillott Blackett
Sir Basil Phillott Blackett (8 January 1882 – 15 August 1935) was a British civil servant and expert on international finance.
Biography
Blackett was the eldest son of Rev. William Blackett, a missionary and educationalist in India and hi ...
(1882–1935), British civil servant and finance expert
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Basil Blackett (1886–1920), British WW1 flying ace
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Christopher Blackett
Christopher Blackett (c. 1751 – 25 January 1829) owned the Northumberland colliery at Wylam that built ''Puffing Billy'', the first commercial adhesion steam locomotive. He was also the founding owner of ''The Globe'' newspaper in 1803.
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, British colliery and newspaper owner and railway innovator
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Edmund Blacket
Edmund Thomas Blacket (25 August 1817 – 9 February 1883) was an Australian architect, best known for his designs for the University of Sydney, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney and Goulburn Cathedral (St. Saviour), St. Saviour's Cathedral, Goulbu ...
(1817–1883), Australian architect
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Hill Blackett
Vernive Hill Blackett (March 13, 1892 – December 6, 1967) was a radio daytime-advertising pioneer who played a major part in the development of the soap opera.
Life
Vernive Hill Blackett was born in Juneau, Alaska in 1892, the son of Charles ...
(1892–1967), American radio advertising pioneer
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Blackett baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Blackett family, both in the Baronetage of England. One creation is extant as of 2013. The Blackett family can be traced back to the Blacketts/Blakheveds of Woodcroft, County Durham, some ...
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Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Matfen (1620–1680), businessman and MP
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Sir Edward Blackett, 2nd Baronet
Sir Edward Blackett, 2nd Baronet (25 October 1649 – 23 April 1718) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons at various times between 1689 and 1701.
Blackett was the eldest surviving ...
of Matfen (1649–1718), MP, builder of Newby Hall
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Sir Edward Blackett, 3rd Baronet
There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Blackett family, both in the Baronetage of England. One creation is extant as of 2013. The Blackett family can be traced back to the Blacketts/Blakheveds of Woodcroft, County Durham, some ...
(1683–1756), Royal Navy officer
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Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet of Matfen (1719–1804), MP
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Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle
Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet (May 1621 – 16 May 1680) was a businessman who founded a mercantile and industrial base in Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle and a politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons from 1673 t ...
(1657–1705), MP
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Sir William Blackett, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Blackett, 2nd Baronet of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (11 February 1690 – 25 September 1728), of Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Wallington Hall, Northumberland, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the British House ...
of Newcastle (1690–1728), MP
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Calverley-Blackett baronets
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Sir Walter Blackett, 2nd Baronet (born Calverley), MP
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Jamie Blackett
James William Beauchamp Blackett (born 17 October 1964) is a British politician, writer, landowner and political activist, who served as leader of the All for Unity party from 2021, until the party's dissolution in 2022. He has written articles ...
(born 1964), British politician, landowner, author and freelance columnist
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Jeff Blackett
Jeffrey Blackett (born 20 May 1955) is a British former judge and Royal Navy officer with the rank of Commodore. He was Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces from 2004 to 2020 and among the cases over which he presided was that of "Marine A ...
(born 1955), British Royal Navy office and judge
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John Fenwick Burgoyne Blackett
John Fenwick Burgoyne Blackett (21 March 1821 – 25 April 1856) was a British politician.
Early life and education
Blackett was born at Manchester Square, Marylebone, the oldest son of Christopher Blackett, a member of parliament (MP) for N ...
(1821–1856), British politician
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John Erasmus Blackett
John Erasmus Blackett (1 January 1729 – 11 June 1814) was a Newcastle upon Tyne businessman and Mayor of Newcastle. He was the father-in-law of Admiral Lord Collingwood, second-in-command to Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Blackett ...
(1729–1814), British businessman and Mayor of Newcastle
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John Blackett (1818–1893), New Zealand engineer
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Lee Blackett
Lee Blackett (born 21 November 1982 in Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom) is an English former rugby union footballer. Educated at King Edward VII and Queen Mary School in Lytham, he played some of his earlier rugby at Fylde Rugby Club. His u ...
(born 1982), English rugby player and coach
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Lindsay Blackett (born 1961), Canadian politician
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Mary Dawes Blackett
Mary Ann Dawes Blackett (fl. 1786-1791) was an English author of two collections of poetry and one book of conduct literature. Her ''Suicide; a poem'' (1789) addressed what was considered by foreigners and English alike to be a pressing natio ...
(fl. 1786–1791), British writer
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Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was an English physicist who received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1925, he was the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear tr ...
(1897–1974), British experimental physicist, Nobel Prize winner
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Ralph Beattie Blacket (1919–2010), Australian physician
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Shane Blackett
Shane Jerome Blackett (born 3 October 1982) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Southern Football League Premier Division side St Neots Town. He is able to play at both centre-back and left-back.
Career
Born in Luton, Blacket ...
(born 1982), English footballer
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Tyler Blackett
Tyler Nathan Blackett (born 2 April 1994) is an English professional footballer who plays as a left-back or centre-back. He joined Manchester United's youth academy in 2002 and worked his way through to the first-team, as well as spending time ...
(born 1994), English footballer
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Vivien Blackett (born 1955), English artist
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Blackett of Wylam
The Blacketts of Wylam were a branch of the Blackett family of Hoppyland, County Durham, England and were related to the Blackett baronets.
John Blackett was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1692, He married Mary, daughter and heir of Richard E ...
, a family
Fictional characters
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Nancy Blackett
Nancy Blackett is a fictional character in nine of the twelve juvenile novels in Arthur Ransome's ''Swallows and Amazons series'' of books. She acts as captain of the dinghy, ''Amazon'' and usually directing her friends in their various adventu ...
and Peggy Blackett, ''
Swallows and Amazons
''Swallows and Amazons'' is a children's adventure novel by English author Arthur Ransome first published on 21 July 1930 by Jonathan Cape. Set in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District, the book introduces the main characters of John, Sus ...
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Z-Cars
''Z-Cars'' or ''Z Cars'' (pronounced "zed cars") is a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police and CID detectives in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, near Liverpool. Produced by ...
Further reading
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External links
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The Blacketts of North East England
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English-language surnames