Robert Blake (admiral) - Honouring Blake

Honouring Blake

In Westminster Abbey, a stone memorial of Robert Blake, unveiled on 27 February 1945, can be found in the south choir aisle.

St Margaret's Church, where Blake was reburied, has a stained glass window depicting Blake's life, together with a brass plaque to his memory, unveiled on 18 December 1888. A modern stone memorial to Blake and the other Parliamentarians reburied in the churchyard has been set into the external wall to the left of the main entrance of the church.

In 1926 the house in Bridgwater where it is believed that Blake was born, was purchased and turned into the Blake Museum.

Blake and his flagship Triumph featured on a second class postage stamp issued in 1982.

In 2007 various events took place in Bridgwater, Somerset, from April to September to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the death of Robert Blake. These included a Civic Ceremony on 8 July 2007 and a 17th Century Market on 15 July 2007.

In the Royal Navy a series of ships have carried the name HMS Blake in honour of the General at Sea. The bell of the last HMS Blake, scrapped in 1982, is on display in Saint Mary's Church, Bridgwater. The Royal Naval academy's campus pub "The Poop Deck" hosts "Blakes Bender Nite" in which incoming cadets drink a special cocktail of oyster juice, whisky, and port.

The Blake oilfield in the United Kingdom Sector of the North Sea is named in honour of the general at sea.

Blake is also mentioned in the poem 'Ye Mariners of England' by Thomas Campbell.

Blake also has a school house named after him at The Royal Hospital School.