Sunday, 10 March 2013
80 John Blake
Constituency : County Waterford 1859 - 69, County Waterford 1880-4 ( Home Rule League )
Carlow County 1886-87 ( Nationalist )
John was a Catholic. He was Mayor of Waterford from 1855-57 and ordered the commencement of works to create The People's Park in the city. He courted Adelaide Power the daughter of a local landowner but her father thought him unsuitable and they did not marry until the old man passed away in 1873 by which time she was forty.
John had a major interest in the fishing industry and resigned his seat in 1869 to become Inspector of Irish Fisheries.
When John returned to Parliament for the county seat in 1880 it was as a Home Ruler.In 1884 he resigned his seat again to facilitate his brother-in-law Patrick Power's entry to Parliament.
John returned in 1886 for County Carlow replacing a colleague who'd been doubly elected but he died 18 months later.
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