Among a virtually all extensive landholder within Connacht from either a 16th to the 19th century. Members of this Irish kwithin were super active in city government, & a ecclesiastic wardenship of County Galway. Sir Richard Blake was a chairwoman or even speaker of the Assembly of Confederate Catholics. Primary estates were at Ardfry, Balglunin, Kiltullagh, Menlo, & Renville, bushed County Galway.

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British spy, George Blake, who was the double professional for the Soviet Union British poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake (1757-1827) British creative person Peter Blake (1932 - ) English Admiral Robert Blake (1599 - 1657) Actor Robert Blake (born 1933), of TV's Baretta Yachtsman Peter Blake (1948 - 2001) Roj Blake, a fictional character from either a television serial ''Blake's 7'' Rob Blake, NHL Hockey player British composer, Howard Blake