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Robert Blake, Baron Blake

Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake (December 23 1916 - September 20 2003) was an English historian, best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. He was created a life peer in 1971 as Baron Blake, of Braydeston in the County of Norfolk.

Partial List of Works

  • Unknown Prime Minister; the life and times of Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923 (1955)
  • Disraeli (1966)
  • Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill (1970) (later revised and updated as Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher, then again as Conservative Party from Peel to Major)
  • History of Rhodesia (1978)
  • Decline of power, 1915-1964 (1985)
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