Blackett Baronets - Blackett Baronets, of Newcastle (1673)

Blackett Baronets, of Newcastle (1673)

• Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet (1620–1680)
• Sir Edward Blackett, 2nd Baronet (1649–1718)
• Sir Edward Blackett, 3rd Baronet (1683–1 March 1756). Blackett was the eldest surviving son of Sir Edward Blackett, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir John Yorke. He served in the Royal Navy and achieved the rank of Captain. Blackett married Mary, daughter of Reverend Thomas Jekyll. They had no children. He died in March 1756 and was buried in Ripon, Yorkshire. The baronetcy devolved on his nephew, Edward. Lady Blackett only survived her husband by nine months and died in November 1756.
• Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet (1719–1804)
• Sir William Blackett, 5th Baronet (16 February 1759–27 October 1816). Blackett succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father, Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet, in 1804, and was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1807/8. Blackett married Mary Anne Keene and their home was Matfen Hall, Matfen, Northumberland. He died at Westoe Lodge, Cambridge and was succeeded by his son Edward.
• Sir Edward Blackett, 6th Baronet DL JP (23 February 1803–23 November 1885). Blackett succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father Sir Edward Blackett, 5th Baronet, in 1816. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford and served in the army in the 1st Life Guards. He was also a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland (23 July 1831),and High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1833, and constructed the new mansion house at Matfen Hall, Matfen, Northumberland, in 1828. Blackett married four times; in 1830 to Julia Monck, the mother of all his children, in 1851 to Francis Vere (Lorane) Ord (d. 29 May 1874), widow of William Ord of Whitfield, in 1875 to Isabella Richardson and finally in 1880 to Alethea Rianette Scott. He died on 23 November 1885 at Matfen Hall, Matfen and was succeeded by his son Edward.
• Sir Edward William Blackett, 7th Baronet CB (22 March 1831–13 September 1909). Blackett was the son of Sir Edward Blackett, 6th Baronet. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1885. He was educated at Eton College and served in the Rifle Brigade in the Crimean War and was seriously injured at the Sebastopol Redan. He was promoted to Colonel in 1878, in which year he was Aide de Camp to HM Queen Victoria and was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath. He was also High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1889. Blackett married Julia Frances Somerville, daughter and co-heiress of Kenelm Somerville, 17th Lord Somerville. He was succeeded by his son Hugh.
• Sir Hugh Douglas Blackett, 8th Baronet (24 March 1873–13 November 1960). Blackett was the eldest son of Colonel Sir Edward Blackett, 7th Baronet, by his wife the Hon. Julia (née Somerville). He was a Captain in the Northumberland Yeomanry and served as High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1914. He was also a Justice of the Peace for the county. Blackett married Helen Katharine, daughter of George William Lowther, in 1903, by whom he had several children. Lady Blackett died in January 1943. Blackett survived her by seventeen years and died in November 1960, aged 87. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Charles.
• Sir Charles Douglas Blackett, 9th Baronet (1904–1968)
• Sir George William Blackett, 10th Baronet (1906–1994)
• Sir Francis Hugh Blackett, 11th Baronet (1907–1995)
• Sir Hugh Francis Blackett, 12th Baronet (b. 1955)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Henry Douglas Blackett (b. 1992)