Charles Joseph Blake , The Tuam Herald, March 6, 1909: Charles Joseph Blake, J P for Queen's Co and Co Galway, who was born in 1840, is the second son of Valentine O'Connor Blake, of Towerhill, and was educated at Stonyhurst College and at Trinity Collage and B A in 1860. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1862 but never practised, and was High Sheriff for Queen's Co in 1895. He refused to stand in the Nationalist interest for Mayo in 1880 and would have been elected. He is a member of the Jockey Club and a great authority on racing, having bred some of the best race horses in Ireland.
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