William kay blacklock biography of albert
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BLACKLOCK, William Kay
1872 - 1924
William [Kay] Kirkbride Blacklock was born at Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland in 1872, second son of John Blacklock (1812-1886), an engine fitter, and his wife Isabella n�e Blackett, who married at Sunderland in 1870.
In 1881, William was an 8-year-old, living at 5 Hudson�s Buildings, Bishop Wearmouth, Sunderland with his parent�s, 39-year-old John and 36-year-old Isabella, and his two siblings, Robert 11, and Helen 6, both born at Sunderland.
William kay blacklock biography of albert
His father John, died in 1886 and in 1891, young William was an 18-year-old lithographer�s apprentice, living at 10 Corporation Road, Rickersgate, Carlisle where his widowed mother was a publican. By 1901, they had moved to 4 Dixon Street, William still a lithographer and his mother a �boarding housekeeper�.
William then studied at School of Applied Art Edinburgh followed by the Royal College of Art in London and under the name of William Kay Blacklock was a painter in oil and watercolour of ge