FREDERICK HENRY MARVELL BLAYDES, 1818-1908
FREDERICK HENRY MARVELL BLAYDES, MA, hon, Oxford LLD, Trin Col Dublin, Phil D Budapest, Halle Athens & Corfu (1818–1908), classical scholar, born at Hampton Court Green on 29 Sept. 1818, was the third son of Hugh Blaydes (1777–1829) of High Paull, Yorkshire, and of Ranby Hall, Nottinghamshire, J.P. and high sheriff for the latter county; his mother was Delia Maria, second daughter of Colonel Richard Wood of Hollin Hall, Yorkshire. James Blaydes of Hull, who married on 25 March 1615 Anne, sister of the poet Andrew Marvell, was a direct ancestor. FREDERICK HENRY MARVELL BLAYDES as a young boy After his father died in 1829, Blaydes was sent to a private school at Boulogne, and thence, on 14 Sept. 1831, to St. Peter's School, York, where he became a free scholar in June 1832 and gained an exhibition before matriculating at Oxford, 20 Oct. 1836, as a commoner of Christ Church. John Ruskin, about five months his junior, was already a gentleman commoner there, and Thom...