Maj Jack BLAKE (1881 - 9 I 1955) was the elder son of Thomas Naish BLAKE (12 VIII 1826 - 1 I 1906) and his wife (married 10 IV 1880), Fanny LEAHY (c.1848/9 - 26 VI 1931). Maj Blake's younger brother was Vice-Adm Sir Geoffrey BLAKE, KCB, DSO (16 IX 1882 - 18 VII 1968), Fourth Sea Lord from 1932 to 1935 and Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod from 1945 to 1949.
Maj Blake and his wife (married 1907), Eleanor Frances Williams ANDREWS (20 I 1886 - 16 III 1978), were also the parents of Lt-Cdr (Thomas) Michael BLAKE (29 IX 1912 - 9 I 1984), who was married on 20 June 1947 to Carol Patricia Benita PELLY (9 IV 1928 - 24 VII 2021), the only daughter of Sir Harold Alwyne PELLY, 5th Bt (27 VIII 1893 - 22 VI 1981).
The Blake family were brewers in Gosport, Hampshire, for over a hundred years. Maj Blake's grandfather, James BLAKE (c.1786 - 1851), and his relative Thomas Blake BARROW, were partners in a Gosport brewing business in 1814, and James Blake started the South Cross Street Brewery in 1830.
Maj Blake's father and his uncle, Thomas Naish Blake and his elder brother, Samuel BLAKE (29 X 1810 - 1889), were the sons of James Blake and his wife (married 19 IX 1809), Mary NAISH (8 VIII 1787 - ?). They took over the brewing business following the death of their father, and in due course it was incorporated as S & T N Blake & Co Ltd. It was taken over by Brickwood & Co Ltd of Portsmouth in 1926.
Maj Blake's wife, née Eleanor Andrews, was the daughter of Robert Williams ANDREWS (1852 - 4 VII 1937) and his wife (married 7 IV 1876), Mary Emily WINNIETT (1858 - 21 VIII 1951), who was herself a granddaughter of Sir William Robert Wolseley WINNIETT (2 III 1793 - 4 XII 1850), Governor of the Gold Coast, and his wife (married 10 VIII 1828), Augustus Julie FENWICK (2 IV 1799 - 28 XI 1865).
Augustus (sic) Julie Fenwick was named Augustus in honour of her godfather, HRH Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, father of HM Queen Victoria. She was the daughter of Col William FENWICK (12 I 1767 - 6 II 1817) and his wife (married 20 XII 1794), Maria WALKER (died 1836), whose sister, Anna Maria WALKER (1768 - 15 VI 1823), was the wife of Col Thomas WILLIAMS (died 1807) and the mother of Gen Sir William Fenwick WILLIAMS, 1st & last Bt, GCB (4 XII 1800 - 26 VII 1883). The Walker sisters were daughters of Lt Thomas WALKER and his wife, Margaret DYSON.
Col William Fenwick was the son of Capt Robert FENWICK (1740 - 1779) and his wife, Ann PHILIPPS (1740 - 1785), who was herself a daughter of Lt-Col Erasmus James PHILIPPS (23 IV 1705 - 26 IX 1760) and his wife, Ann DYSON (1710 - 1780), a sister of Margaret Dyson mentioned above and also of Mary DYSON (1728 -1804), who was the wife (married 26 XII 1751) of Joseph WINNIETT (c.1726 - 3 XII 1789), and the mother of William WINNIETT (1765 - 1824), the husband (married 1788) of Mary TOTTEN (died 18 II 1848), by whom he was the father of Sir William Winniett mentioned above.
From the above, Sir William Winniett and his wife were therefore second cousins; his wife's father, Col William Fenwick, was therefore her mother's first cousin once removed downwards.
