Edwin Blake
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| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
| 1887 | 9th | Avon | Independent | |
| 1887–1890 | 10th | Avon | Independent | |
| 1890–1893 | 11th | Avon | Liberal
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Edwin Blake (1830 – 18 March 1914) was a 19th-century Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Canterbury, New Zealand.
Biography
Blake was a civil engineer and surveyor, and he was born in Hampstead, England.[1]
Although he lived in Christchurch, he contested the Kumara electorate on the West Coast against Richard Seddon in the 1884 election;[2] the incumbent Seddon won the contest.[3] Blake represented the Avon electorate from the 1887 Avon by-election to 1893,[4][5] when he was defeated standing in the Lyttelton electorate.[6]
He died on 18 March 1914 and was buried at Linwood Cemetery.[7] Blakes Road in Belfast is named for him and his younger brother John William.[8]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Avon 1887–1893 |
Succeeded by William Tanner |
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