Edwin Blake

Career

Blake was a civil engineer and surveyor, and he was born in Hampstead, England. Blake represented the Avon electorate from the 1887 Avon by-election to 1893, when he was defeated standing in the Lyttelton electorate. He died on 18 March 1914 and was buried at Linwood Cemetery.

Achievements

• Although he lived in Christchurch, he contested the Kumara electorate on the West Coast against Richard Seddon in the 1884 election. The incumbent Seddon won the contest.