Brief profile of L.E.Bligh by Don Ambrose

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Player:

LE Bligh

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BLIGH, Lodovick Edward.
Amateur.
Born at Dover, Kent, 24th November 1854.
Died at Minehead, Somerset, 16th May 1924.
The son of the Hon. and Rev. Edward Vesey Bligh, of Fatherwell Hall, West Malling, Kent. He was educated at Eton and at Jesus College, Cambridge. He played in ten matches for Kent 1878-84. He married Marian Louisa, daughter of the Rev. Frederick Alexander Stewart-Savile, of Kilmorie, Torquay.
He was the Master of Foxhounds of the Dulveston, South Berks, and East Kent packs, and was in 1907 Master of the Minehead Harriers, when his address was Cambria House, Minehead.
He was great-grandson of the 4th Earl of Darnley, who played for Kent in 1790, and the nephew of the 6th Earl of Darnley who played for the Gentlemen of Kent in 1848.
His father played for Kent, Oxford University and Middlesex.
He is not listed in the 1881 Census, but his father Edward V.Bligh is resident at Fartherwell Hall, Ryarsh, Kent, aged 52, a Magistrate Clergyman without cure of souls, with his wife the Lady Isabel, aged 49. Their son Roderick E.Bligh, aged 26, and a Magistrate and Captain of Militia and daughter Rosalind, aged 23, are both unmarried. Cecil W.Stratford, a 27 year old Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers is a visitor and there are fifteen domestic servants.

(Article: Copyright © 2003 Don Ambrose)