The son of Admiral G. C. Blake, Paget Blake was born at Alver-stoke, Hampshire, and educated at Bishops Waltham School. He graduated at Edinburgh University in 1840 and joined the Royal Navy. He served in the China War as assistant surgeon in H.M.S. Cornwallis and received the China medal. Retiring from the Navy in 1856, he settled in practice at Torquay, where he acted as physician to the Consumption Hospital. He presented a collection of curios to the town. He retired to St. Marychurch, Babbacombe Bay, and died at Saltash.

G H Brown

[Lancet, 1896. 1896; B.M.J., 1896]