Mr. John Henry Blake, of Rathville, in the county of Galway, J.P., who was barbarously murdered on the 29th ult., on the road near Loughrea, was youngest son of the late Colonel John Blake, of Furbough, county Galway, and uncle of Colonel Daly, of Raford (who changed his name from Blake to Daly), and uncle also of the present Countess of Westmeath. Connected with the chief families of Connaught, and acting as agent for the Marquis of Clanricarde, Mr. Blake held a leading position in the locality in which he resided, and was personally much esteemed. He married, in 1874, Harriette Frances, daughter of Mr. Francis J. Lynch, an eminent county physician, and leaves, with other issue, a son and heir, Edmond-Martin, born in 1876.
Source: The Illustrated London News, July 8, 1882, p.50