He was Chief Remembrancer of the Irish Exchequer and privy councillor, one of the first Catholics to hold high office in modern Ireland.

REFERENCES TO Anthony Richard Blake:

George Morris to Viscount Melbourne, 6 September 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 5 October 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Richard Lalor Sheil to Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, [January 1829] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)