Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 26 - Lord de Blaquière
Lord de Blaquière. — Antoine de Blaquière, a French noble of Guienne, married Elizabeth de Montiel. His son, Florence, who settled at Lueze in Languedoc, was the father of Jean de Blaquière, who in early youth took refuge in England in 1685. The refugee’s wife was Marie Elizabeth De Varennes; he died in 1753, she in 1780. Jean de Blaquière had a numerous family, in which the fifth son John is conspicuous. Lieutenant-Colonel John De Blaquière, of the 17th Light Dragoons (who was born 15th May 1732), was Secretary of Legation at Paris in 1771, Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1772. He was made a Knight of the Bath, 3rd August 1774, and a Baronet, 6th July 1784. Sir John was raised to the Peerage as Baron de Blaquière of Ardkill, County Londonderry, in 1800, and died 27th August 1812, aged eighty. He was the father of John the second baron (born 1776, died 1844), and of General, William, third Baron de Blaquière (born 1778, died 1851). The fourth and fifth barons sprang from the latter. The fourth son of the first Lord was Hon. Peter Boyle de Blaquière (born 1784, died i860), a member of the Legislative Council of Canada, and Chancellor of the University of Toronto. The De Blaquière motto is Tiens à la verité.