Matthew Blakiston

Sir Matthew Blakiston, 1st Baronet (c. 1702 – 14 July 1774)^[1] was a British merchant, grocer and baronet.

He was the son of George Blakiston and his wife Elizabeth Kay, daughter of Matthew Kay.^[2] He was an Alderman of London from 1750 to 1769, was elected Sheriff of London in 1754 and became the 442nd Lord Mayor of London in 1761.^[3] He was knighted at Kensington Palace in 1759^[4] and was created a Baronet, of the City of London on 22 April 1763.^[5] Blakiston served as colonel of the Green Regiment of the London Trained Bands.^[4] He died at Jermyn Street in London.^[6]

Blakiston married firstly Margaret Hall, daughter of Reverend Charles Hall.^[7] His second wife, Mary Blew, died in 1754^[7] and Blakiston married thirdly Annabella Bayley, daughter of Thomas Bayley in St Johns, London on 8 April 1760.^[2] He had a son by his first wife and two sons by his third wife.^[2] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second and only surviving son, Matthew.^[8]

References

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4. Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. III. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 194.
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6. Peter Cunningham, ed. (1861). Bohn's English Gentlemen's Library: Horace Walpole's Letters. Vol. II. London: Henry G. Bohn. p. 216.
7. Burke, Bernhard (1898). Peter Ashworth Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry 1891-1895. Vol. I. London: Harrison. p. 499.
8. Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 117.