John Fairfax-Blakeborough [SEP] place of death
John Fairfax-Blakeborough
Major John Fairfax-Blakeborough (born Guisborough 16 January 1883; died Westerdale 1 January 1976) a.k.a. "Jack" was an English writer and folklorist.
Biography.
After leaving school he spent three months in a broker’s office and then joined the Middlesbrough Evening Telegraph (later the Evening Gazette). At twenty-one he became a freelance writer, specialising in country sports and horse racing.
From childhood, he had been interested in horses, racing and hunting and he gained
, Senior Principal, Metropolitan Police Office.
- The Reverend Reginald Charles Morris Beeny, Director, Church of England Children's Society.
- St. John Michael Clive Birt, Senior Consaltant Surgeon, Jersey General Hospital.
- Major John Freeman Fairfax Blakeborough, M.C., Writer. For services to journalism and sport.
- Raphael Braude, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading.
- Trevor Broom, Director of Operations, Headquarters, Central Electricity Generating Board.
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