Background
Blackburne was born into an ecclesiastical family on 4 June 1912 and educated at Marlborough and Clare College, Cambridge before neginning his ordained ministry as a curate in Almondbury.
Blackburne was born into an ecclesiastical family on 4 June 1912 and educated at Marlborough and Clare College, Cambridge before neginning his ordained ministry as a curate in Almondbury.
Clare College.
He was then a chaplain in the Forces and then held incumbencies at Milton, Hampshire, Harrow, the Hilsborough parishes and Ranworth before being ordained to the episcopate. He died in 1995.