Personal Life
Blake married twice: Jeannie Irwin in 1862 (she died in 1866), and Edith Bernal Osborne (7 February 1846 - ?) in Slough, Ireland, on 7 February 1874 (she was the daughter of MP Ralph Bernal Osborne). He had two sons and one daughter (Olive, who married John Bernard Arbuthnot). During his period as Governor of Bermuda, a watercolour of his three children, Children Under a Palm, was painted by Winslow Homer. The painting was subsequently featured on the BBC TV programme, Fake or Fortune?.
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