1843 | Born July 22nd in London. |
Educated at King’s College. | |
1843 | Apprenticed to engineer, engaged for several years on railway work in Cornwall and S. Wales. |
1868 | Joined Survey. Became engaged in re-survey of portions of Somerset, later in first detailed Drift Survey of area N.W. of London. |
Transferred to Suffolk and Norfolk. Made careful study of Forest Bed Series. | |
1884 | 1” Geol. Survey of England completed. Blake went to Reading and began 6” re-survey and mapping of Drifts. |
1901 | Died March 5th. |
1888 | Memoir: "East Dereham" (1888) |
1890 | Memoir: "Yarmouth and Lowestoft" (1890) |
Memoir: "Water Supply of Berkshire" (with Whitaker) | |
1903 | Memoir: "Reading" (unfinished) (1903) |
1886 | Memoir: "Bury St Edmunds" (1886) with F.J. Bennett |
1876 | Contributed notes to: "E. Somerset" (1876) |
1881 | Contributed notes to: "Stowmarket" (1881) |
1881 | Contributed notes to: "Norwich" (1881) |
1889 | Contributed notes to: "London" (1889) |
1901 | Obituary - John Hopwood Blake, Assoc.M.Inst,C.E., F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. Geologists Magazine. New Series. v. 8 p.238-240. 1901 |
1902 | Teall, J.J.H. Obituary - John Hopwood Blake. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 58 p.liii-liv. 1902 |