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Authorised form of nameBlake; Sir; Francis (1708 - 1780)
Dates1708 - 1780
Date of birth1708
Place of deathTilmouth
Date of death29 March 1780
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Houghton-le-Spring
ActivityHonours:
Bt 1774
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/06/1746
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA1516
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1746/04Blake, Sir Francis: certificate of election to the Royal Society19 June 1746
L&P/2/420Letter, 'Of the effects of lightning at Darlington' from William Wood to Francis Blake1753
L&P/2/293Paper, 'Spherical trigonometry reduced to plane' by Francis Blake7 May 1752
L&P/3/181Paper, 'The greatest effect of engines with uniformly accelerated motion considered' by Francis Blake22 June 1756
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