Robert Blake, Baron Blake
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The Right Honourable The Lord Blake FBA |
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| Born |
23 December 1916 Brundall, Norfolk |
| Died | 20 September 2003 (aged 86) Brundall, Norfolk |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Notable work |
Disraeli (1966) The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill (1970) |
| Political party | Conservative |
Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake, FBA (23 December 1916 – 20 September 2003), was an English historian and peer. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill, which grew out of his 1968 Ford lectures.
Blake was born on the 23 December 1916 in Brundall, Norwich, the son of a schoolmaster. He was educated at King Edward VI's Norwich School, where his father taught, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he got a First in Modern Greats and a hockey Blue. He served in the Royal Artillery during the war, was taken prisoner in Tobruk in 1942, escaped Italy in 1944, and was mentioned in despatches. He worked for MI6 from 1944 to 1946.
Blake was a Conservative member of Oxford City Council from 1957-1964.
In 1947 he became a student and tutor in Politics at the Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1968 was elected provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, a post he retained until retirement in 1987. Blake was a friend of the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper. He was for many years Senior Member (the University Don responsible for ruling on internal disputes such as accusations of electoral malpractice) of the Oxford University Conservative Association.
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