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2 unusual facts about Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet


Edward Blackett

Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet (1719–1804), baronet and member of the British House of Commons for Northumberland

Halton Castle, Northumberland

In 1757 Anne Douglas the heiress of Halton married Sir Edward Blackett and the castle remains a residence of the Blackett family.


Digby Mackworth Dolben

His father, William Harcourt Isham Mackworth (1806—1872), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet.

Sir Edward Blackett, 2nd Baronet

Blackett was the eldest surviving son of William Blackett and his wife Elizabeth Kirkley.

Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet

In 1757 he married Anne Douglas, daughter of Oley Douglas and heiress of Matfen, Northumberland and was succeeded by their son William.


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