Basil Temple Blackwood
Lord Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood | |
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Civil servant, Soldier | |
Parents | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava Hariot Rowan-Hamilton |
Lord Ian Basil Gawaine Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (4 November 1870 – 3 July 1917), known as Lord Basil Temple Blackwood, was a British lawyer,
Early life
Temple Blackwood was the third son and fifth child of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood. He was born in Clandeboye, Ireland. After spending part of his childhood in Canada, where his father was Governor General, he attended Harrow School.[1] He went up to Balliol College, Oxford in 1891, but never graduated. Whilst at Oxford, he became friends with Hilaire Belloc, with whom he would enjoy long walks and canoeing trips.[2]
Illustrations
In 1896, Belloc approached Blackwood to illustrate his book of humorous children's verse,
"Milner's Kindergarten"
Blackwood studied law and was called to the Bar in 1896.[6] In 1900, he was taken to South Africa by Lord Milner, who had been appointed High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897 and assembled a body of talented young assistants who became known as "Milner's Kindergarten". Blackwood was employed in the Judge Advocate's Department for a year, then was Assistant Colonial Secretary of Orange River Colony from 1901 to 1907. He became Colonial Secretary of Barbados in 1907[citation needed] and returning to England in 1910, was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Land Development Commission.[citation needed]
Military service
On the outbreak of
References
- ^ Who's Who, Volume 61, A & C Black 1909
- ISBN 0-241-11176-5(p.51)
- ISBN 0-89870-942-3(p.58)
- ^ a b Styles, Morag (1998). From the garden to the street : an introduction to 300 years of poetry for children. London: Cassell.
- ^ Worldcat Identities: B.T.B. (Basil Temple Blackwood) 1870-1917
- ^ Harrow Memorials of the Great War: 23 August 1914, to 20 March 1915. Philip Lee Warner, 1918
- ^ Cracroft's Peerage: Dufferin and Ava, Marquess of (UK, 1888-1988) Archived 11 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Harrow Memorials of the Great War
- ^ Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Casualty Details