Post-Hong Kong
Blake was appointed Governor of Ceylon at the end of his tenure in Hong Kong in 1903, and he served in that capacity until 1907. This was his last post in the Colonial Service. The Blakes retired to Myrtle Grove in Youghal, County Cork (the alleged house of Sir Walter Raleigh, who never in fact lived there), where they both died and were buried.
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