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Robert Blake, Baron Blake
British historian
Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake, FBA, FRSL (23 December 1916 – 20 September 2003), was an Englishhistorian and peer.
Lord blackle biography
He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill, which grew out of his 1968 Ford lectures.[1]
Early life
Robert Blake was born in Brundall, Norwich, the elder son of William Joseph Blake, a schoolmaster, and of Norah Lindley Blake, (née Daynes), the daughter of a leading Norwich solicitor.[2] The family firm was Daynes, Hill & Perks, subsequently acquired by Eversheds.
He was said to be related to Admiral Robert Blake, of the Parliamentary navy.[2][1]
Blake was educated at a dame school in Brundall; King Edward VI's Norwich School, where his father taught History;[3] and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was an Eldon Law Scholar.
He graduated from Oxford with a First in Mo