The Reverend Honourable Edward Vesey Bligh JP DL (28 February 1829 – 22 April 1908) was an English cricketer, diplomat and clergyman.
A descendant of the Darnley Earldom in Kent, he, along with many other members of his family, acted as a patron of cricket in the county during the nineteenth Century.
His father died in 1835 and Bligh later recalled the extensive use of corporal punishment inflicted on him by his mother, which, he argued, could be distinguished by the beatings he received whilst a pupil at Eton, 'by the love which lay behind the floggings'.
[2] On going up to Christ Church, where he matriculated on 27 May 1847,[3] he managed to secure a place in the Oxford University side and was awarded his Blue in 1850.
After leaving Oxford, Bligh joined the Diplomatic Service and was successively attaché at Hanover, Florence and Berlin.
Edward Vesey Bligh died on 22 April 1908 at Fartherwell Hall, West Malling, Kent.