Sir Arthur Frederick Blakiston, 7th Baronet, MC (16 June 1892 – 2 February 1974)Deaths The Times (London, England), Saturday, 2 February 1974; pg. 24; Issue 59004Who Was Who Vol. VII, 1971–80 (London, 1981), p. 77 was a rugby union international"Centenary History of the Rugby Union" McWhirter, R/ Titley, U.A: Trowbridge, Redwood press, 1970 wingESPNscrum.com who represented England twelve times between 1920 and 1925, and the British Lions in all four test matches during their 1924 tour of South Africa.
Blakiston was educated at Bedford School, Trent College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He served in the Great War as an officerLondon Gazette in the Royal Field ArtilleryWW1 talk and was awarded the Military Cross.Edinburgh Gazette He played for Northampton, Liverpool, Blackheath and the Barbarians. A farmer, he was Master of the South Shropshire Foxhounds.Obituary The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 5 February 1974; pg. 14
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