In addition to several streets containing the name Blackett, such as Blackett Street in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (see Anderson Place and Blackett Street, Newcastle), Blackett Street in Putney, south-west London, and Blackett Close in Staines, Middlesex, the Blackett name has also been seen on many high street businesses over the years.

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Many members of the family have served in the armed forces, and several became prisoners of war.

In 1942 Sir Charles Douglas Blackett, then a Major in The Queen’s Bays, was serving in the North African desert. On 25 January he was captured during a counter-attack against tanks of Rommel’s Afrika Corps.

Around 1820 Patience Wise Blackett Izard, named after her aunt by marriage,

In 1896 John Joseph Blackett (1875-1931) and his father,

In 1776 Trinity House agreed to allow Captain John Blackett to build at his own expense two lighthouses off the Northumberland coast, one at Farne Island and the other on Staples Island, not far from where in 1838 Grace Darling and her father rowed out to save nine survivors from the SS Forfarshire.

In 1819 William Robinson, the son of Margaret Blackett and William Robinson of Hamsterley, County Durham, mar

In 1856 Robert Collingwood Black