Royal Naval Biography/Blakiston, Thomas
THOMAS BLAKISTON, Esq.
[Commander.]
Fourth son of the late Sir Matthew Blakiston, Bart., (whose father was Lord Mayor of London in 1760) by Anne, daughter of John Rochford, Esq. of Clogbreanan, co. Carlow, Ireland.
This officer served as midshipman on board the Magnificent 74, Captain William Henry Jervis, and was wrecked in that ship, on a sunken rock near Brest, Mar. 25th, 1804[1]. He passed his examination in the beginning of Jan. 1810; obtained his first commission on the 11th of the same month; and subsequently served under Sir John Gore, in the Tonnant 80, principally employed off Brest, l’Orient, and Rochfort; Revenge 74, on the Mediterranean station; and, for upwards of three years, as his flag-lieutenant in the river Medway. He obtained the rank of commander on the 2d July 1821; and married, Aug. 7th, 1827, Harriet, fourth daughter of Lieutenant-Col. Harvey, of Thorpe.