Henry Arthur Blake

Sir Henry Arthur Blake GCMG DL JP FRGS
46th Governor of The Bahamas
In office 4 January 1884 – 1887
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Sir Charles Cameron Lees
Succeeded by	Sir Ambrose Shea
55th Governor of Newfoundland
In office 1887 – December 1888
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Sir G W Des Voeux
Succeeded by	Sir John T N O'Brien
65th Governor of Jamaica
In office 23 December 1888 – 1898
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	William Clive Justice (Ag)
Succeeded by	Henry Jardine Hallowes (Ag)
12th Governor of Hong Kong
In office 25 November 1898 – 21 November 1903
Monarchs	Victoria Edward VII
Lieutenant Governor	Sir Wilsone Black Sir William Gascoigne
Colonial Secretary	Sir Stewart Lockhart Sir Francis Henry May
Preceded by	Sir William Robinson
Succeeded by	Sir Matthew Nathan
19th Governor of British Ceylon
In office 3 December 1903 – 11 July 1907
Monarch	Edward VII
Preceded by	Sir Everard im Thurn (Ag)
Succeeded by	Hugh Clifford (Ag)
Personal details
Born	(1840-01-08)8 January 1840 Limerick, Ireland
Died	13 February 1918(1918-02-13) (aged 78) Myrtle Grove, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland
Resting place	Myrtle Grove, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland
Spouses	Jeannie Irwin ​ ​ (m. 1862; died 1866)​ Edith Bernal Osborne, Lady Blake ​ ​ (m. 1874)​
Children	3
Profession	Constable, magistrate, colonial administrator
Chinese name
Chinese	卜力
Transcriptions Yue: Cantonese Jyutping buk1 lik6

Sir Henry Arthur Blake GCMG DL JP FRGS^[1] (Chinese: 卜力; Sidney Lau: Buk¹ Lik⁶; 8 January 1840 – 23 February 1918) was an Irish-born British colonial administrator who held the governorships of six British colonies over the course of his career.