Sir Henry Arthur Blake (1840 - 1918) was a British colonial admnistrator.
Career
After a term as an Irish magistrate , Blake became:
- 1884-1887: governor of the Bahamas
- 1887-1889: governor of Newfoundland
- he was then appointed governor of Queensland but resigned before taking office
- 1889-1897: governor of Jamaica
- 1897-1903: governor of Hong Kong
- 1903-1907: governor of Ceylon
In 1910 he left the Colonial Office to become chairman of Newfoundland Oilfields Limited.
Memory
Blake had a strong interest in botany. The tree Bauhinia blakeana, which was first found in Hong Kong around 1880, was named after him. Its flower was adopted as the emblem of Hong Kong in 1965 and since 1997 it is the representative flower for the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, and appears on its flag and its coins.
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