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n. (surname: English)
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Blackburne may refer to:
- Blackburne (name)
- Blackburne (motorcycles), a British motorcycle manufacturer 1913–1921
- Blackburne Airport, an airport in Montserrat
- Blackburne, Edmonton, a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Canada
Blackburne was a trade name of Burney and Blackburne Limited a British manufacturer of motorcycles from 1913 to 1922 at Tongham near Farnham, Surrey. They were also a major supplier of engines to other motor cycle and light car makers and continued to make these until 1937. Burney and Blackburne also made small aircraft engines.
Blackburne is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anna Blackburne (1726–1793), English botanist
- Francis Blackburne (1782–1867), Lord Chancellor of Ireland
- John Ireland Blackburne (1783–1874), MP for Newton (1807–1818) and Warrington (1835–1847)
- John Ireland Blackburne (1817–1893), MP for South West Lancashire 1875–1885
- Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841–1921), British chess master
- Lancelot Blackburne (1658–1743), English clergyman, Archbishop of York, purported pirate
- Lena Blackburne (1886–1968), American Major League baseball player and manager
Usage examples of "blackburne".
Your instructions will be delivered to you there at the Blackburne Airport.
Tranquility Isle was in kilometers much nearer Plymouth than to Blackburne Airport, and if one knew the shoals, not much longer to reach in a drug boat than in a seaplane, which had to bank east out of Blackburne to catch the prevailing west winds in order to land on the sea.
I’m flying back to Blackburne Airport, where I’ll create a scene, the bereaved husband and father who’s gone crazy over the killing of his wife and children.
Those seaplanes flew in four or five times after I got back here from Blackburne.
Tell him it’s a man named Blackburne from the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean.
She chartered a plane out of Blackburne, but she wouldn’t tell me what international island she was going to.
The British master, Blackburne, once flung Stenitz from a window when the latter defeated him in a match.
Blackburne, whose 27th birthday had been celebrated just the day before, had already been playing blindfold chess for seven years.