About Val ffrench Blake
Lived 1913 – 2011 (aged 98). Val ffrench Blake was a writer.
Robert Lifford Valentine ffrench Blake (3 March 1913 – 11 March 2011) was a lieutenant-colonel in the British Army, cattle and horse breeder, and author.
Biography Early life Robert Lifford Valentine ffrench Blake was born on 3 March 1913 in Rawalpindi, India. He was a descendant of the Tribes of Galway. His father was Major St. John Lucius O'Brien Acheson ffrench Blake, who was killed at the First Battle of Gaza, and his mother, Doris Kathleen Tweedie.
Personal life He married Grania Bryde Curran. They had two sons: Neil St. John ffrench Blake (born 1940) and Anthony O'Brien ffrench Blake (born 1942). They resided at Midgham Park Farm in Woolhampton, Berkshire. He spent his last years in a nursing home in Nether Wallop, Hampshire.
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Val ffrench Blake died on 11 March 2011.
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Val ffrench Blake was a writer.
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