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Martin Joseph Blake
Martin
Joseph Blake
was an
Irish
Independent Irish Party
and
Repeal Association
politician.
Blake
was the son of
Walter Blake
and
Mary Joseph
. He was at some point a
Deputy Lieutenant
.
Blake became
Repeal
Association
Member of Parliament
for
Galway Borough
in 1833—following the unseating of
Lachlan
MacLachlan—and,
elected
for the
Independent
Irish Party
in
1852
, held the seat until the
1857 general election
when he did not
seek
re-election
.