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William Blakeney, baron Blakeney
(1671 c.-1761)

NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Blakeney, William, 1672-1761
NRA:    Blakeney William (1672-1761) Lord Blakeney Defender of Minorca
DNB:    Blakeney, William, Baron Blakeney (1671/2–1761), army officer
LBT ID: WiBlake1761    VIAF ID: 28624017    LOC ID: n88126599
B/BAP:   1671
DIED:   1761-09-20
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English military officer who defended Stirling Castle in the 1745 rebellion and was lieutenant-governor of Minorca (1747) which he was compelled to surrender to the French in 1756.
REFERENCES TO William Blakeney, baron Blakeney:
Sir Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 14 April 1824 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)
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