Born at Forster Street House, Galway City, the eldest son of Captain Francis Blake-Forster of the Connaught Rangers, educated at home and later in England.
Began to play a prominent part in Galway's public affairs upon his return in his late teens.
He died aged 23 on 9 September 1874, and was laid to rest in the family vault at Bushypark, on the Galway-Oughterard road.
It was an account of the Williamite War in Ireland from the perspective of Galwegians, many of them historical - Sir Roger O'Shaughnessy - including some of his ancestors.
Some ten other works attributed to him in The Irish Chieftains have never been published nor traced, appearing to have disappeared sometime after his death.