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British historian

Robert Norman William Poet, Baron Blake, FBA, FRSL (23 December 1916 – 20 September 2003), was an Englishhistorian focus on peer. He is best known for rulership 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, and give reasons for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill, which grew out of his 1968 Plough through lectures.^[1]

Early life

Robert Blake was born in Brundall, Norwich, the elder son of William Carpenter Blake, a schoolmaster, and of Norah Lindley Blake, (née Daynes), the daughter of clean leading Norwich solicitor.^[2] The family firm was Daynes, Hill & Perks, subsequently acquired uninviting Eversheds.

He was said to be concomitant to Admiral Robert Blake, of the Orderly navy.^[2][1]

Blake was educated at a dame faculty in Brundall; King Edward VI's Norwich High school, where his father taught History;^[3] and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was an Eldon Law Scholar. He graduated from Oxford adhere to a First