What is "blakiston"

Blakiston may refer to:

• Blakiston (surname)
• Blakiston baronets
• Blakiston, South Australia, a small town in South Australia, Australia
• Mount Blakiston, Alberta, Canada, named after Thomas Blakiston (1832-1891)

Blakiston is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Bob Blakiston (1855-1918), American Major League Baseball outfielder
• Caroline Blakiston (1933-), English actress
• Charles Blakiston (1825–1898), New Zealand politician
• Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston (1862–1942), President of Trinity College, Oxford, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
• John Blakiston (1603–1649), English MP, coal merchant and one of the regicides of King Charles I
• John Blakiston-Houston (1829-1920), Irish member of parliament
• Matthew Blakiston (1702–1774), Lord Mayor of London, 1st Baronet of London
• Nathaniel Blakiston, Royal Governor of the Maryland colony from 1698 to 1702
• Nehemiah Blakiston, Royal Governor of the Maryland colony from 1691 to 1692
• Oswell Blakeston, pseudonym of Henry Joseph Hasslacher (1907–1985), writer, artist and poet
• Thomas Blakiston (1832-1891), English explorer and naturalist