Lancelot Blackburne


Lancelot Blackburne
Archbishop of York
A middle-aged white man seated and wearing Georgian-era English clerical robes.
Archbishop Blackburne (attr. Joseph Highmore)
ProvinceProvince of York
DioceseDiocese of York
In office1724–1743 (death)
PredecessorWilliam Dawes
SuccessorThomas Herring
Other post(s)Dean of Exeter (1705–1717)
Archdeacon of Cornwall (1715–1717)
Personal chaplain to George I (1716)
Bishop of Exeter (1717–1724)
Lord High Almoner (1723–1743)
Orders
Ordination1681 (deacon)
Consecration1717
Personal details
Born(1658-12-10)10 December 1658
Died23 March 1743(1743-03-23) (aged 84)
BuriedSt Margaret's, Westminster
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglicanism
Spouse
Catherine
(m. 1684)
EducationWestminster School
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

Lancelot Blackburne (sometimes Blackburn, Blackborne or Blackbourn[e]; 10 December 1658 – 23 March 1743) was an English clergyman, who became Archbishop of York, and – in popular belief – a pirate.

He was described by Horace Walpole, in his Memories, as "the jolly old Archbishop of York, who had all the manners of a man of quality, though he had been a buccaneer, and was a clergyman; but he retained nothing of his first profession, except his seraglio".