Robert Blakey

Robert Blakey (18 May 1795 – 26 October 1878) was an English writer and academic, and an early Chartist radical and journalist. He is known also for numerous works on angling. Blakey served as Mayor of Morpeth from 1836 to 1837. Born in Morpeth, Northumberland, he lost his father at a young age and had various early occupations before becoming a writer. He contributed to several publications and purchased the *Northern Liberator* in 1838, becoming involved in Chartist agitation. After a prosecution for an essay on the right of resistance, he sold the paper and studied philosophy in France. He later became professor of logic and metaphysics at Queen's College, Belfast, and received a civil list pension. His major philosophical work is 'History of the Philosophy of Mind'. He also wrote extensively on angling.