Samuel Hume Blake

Samuel Hume Blake (31 August 1835 – 23 June 1914) was a Canadian politician from Toronto. Early life Blake was born on 31 August 1835 in Toronto, Canada. He was the second son of William Hume Blake (1809–1870), an Irish-Canadian jurist and politician, and Catherine Honoria (née Hume) Blake (1804–1886). Among his siblings was the older brother, Edward Blake, the second Premier of Ontario, and younger sister, Sophie Eliza (née Blake) Cronyn. His maternal grandparents were Eliza and Samuel Hume and his paternal grandparents were the Rev. Dominick Edward Blake, and Ann (née Hume) Blake, a daughter of William Hume M.P. of Humewood Castle. Blake was educated at home by tutors and entered Upper Canada College, where he studied for five years.