Biography of Hon. Edward Blake, Q.C.
Edward Blake was born in the township of Adelaide, county of Middlesex Ontario, E in 1833. He is the eldest son of the late Hon. Wm. Hume Blake, himself a man of marked ability, and grandson of the late Rev. Dominick Blake, rector of Killegan and Lough Richland, Ireland; his mother was the daughter of Wm. Hume, of Humewood. The subject of this sketch was educated in his earlier years, by Messrs. Wedd and Brown, and later at the Upper Canada College. In his youth, Edward Blake showed signs of possessing in the bud the talents of elocution and a … Read more