The Blackett Baronetcy, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the County of Northumberland, was created in the Baronetage of England on 23 January 1685 for William Blackett, third son of the first Baronet of the 1673 creation.
John Blackett (died 1714) was the son of John (above), grandson of Christopher Blackett of Hoppyland (1612-1675) and the greatnephew of Sir William Blackett.
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The Blacketts of Wylam were a branch of the Blackett family of Hoppyland, County Durham, England and were related to the Blackett baronets.
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William Hedley, Timothy Hackworth and Jonathan Forster all worked at Wylam Colliery for Christopher Blackett (1751-1829), and there produced the famous early steam engines Puffing Billy (1813-1814) and Wylam Dilly (1815)
This seat is currently held by Ed Husic, of the Australian Labor Party, and he was last re-elected in the 2010 elections.
Nancy Blackett – Ransome's sailing cutter named after his favourite character
Blackett was the eldest surviving son of William Blackett and his wife Elizabeth Kirkley.
Blackett was the son of William Blackett and his wife Julia Conyers.
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He bequeathed his estates at Allendale, Northumberland and Wallington Hall, Cambo to his nephew Sir Walter Calverley, 2nd Baronet of Calverley, conditional upon the latter's marriage to Elizabeth Orde, Blackett's natural daughter and his change of name to Blackett.
He settled at Cambo, where he expended considerable sums on improvements to Wallington Hall, which he remodelled in the then fashionable Palladian style to designs by architect Daniel Garrett.
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His wife died on 21 September 1759, and was buried 6 days later at St Nicholas's, Newcastle.
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Blackett was succeeded by his elder son, Edward, the second Baronet who represented Ripon and Northumberland in the House of Commons and built Newby Hall.
The Blackett effect was used by the science fiction writer James Blish in his series Cities in Flight (1955–1962) as the basis for his fictional stardrive, the spindizzy.
The Calverley, later Calverley-Blackett Baronetcy, of Calverley in the County of York, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain.
Blackett was born a Blackett of Wylam and the eldest son by the second marriage of John Blackett, a High Sheriff of Northumberland, whose family descended from Christopher Blackett, an elder brother of Sir William Blackett, and Alice Fenwick, sole heir of her father.
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His youngest son, Rev John Alexander Blackett (1803-1865), in 1855 inherited the Whitfield, Northumberland estates of his wife's uncle, William Ord, and changed his name to Blackett-Ord.
Blackett was the son of the Rev. C. R. Blackett, Independent minister at Southminster, England, where he was born 9 October 1831.
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Mr. Blackett married Miss Margaretta Palmer in May 1870 at Stokesley, England.
In this book, the three families of major characters in the series, the Swallows (the Walker family), the Amazons (the Blackett sisters) and the Ds (the two Callums), are all reunited in a book for the first time since Pigeon Post.
Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s Blackett-Sample-Hummert were responsible for a succession of radio drama series, mostly produced by Hummert and his assistant Anne Ashenhurst, whom Hummert later married, including Little Orphan Annie, Just Plain Bill and Ma Perkins.
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Blackett was a member of the Republican National Committee and guided the campaign of Alf Landon, who ran unsuccessfully against the incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 US presidential election.
He was the younger son of George Richardson (d. 1806), master of Blackett's charity school, Newcastle; his elder brother was Thomas Miles Richardson, the artist.
It was designed in 1755 by architect Daniel Garrett for Sir Walter Blackett owner of Wallington Hall, from where it is visible on the hillside.
Stagecoach in Newcastle provides local services around the city as well as operating the 100 MetroCentre shuttle, running from Blackett Street via Central Station to the Metro Centre.
After returning to Ceylon Appapillai collaborated with Blackett, Arnold Wolfendale and A. W. Mailvaganam in establishing that Associated Penetrating Particles did not exist within the limits of measurement.
The hall house was rebuilt in 1688 around the ancient Pele Tower house for Sir William Blackett and was later substantially rebuilt again, in Palladian style, for Sir Walter Blackett by architect Daniel Garret, before passing to the Trevelyan family in 1777.