Harold Henry Blake OBE (1 August 1883 – 1960) was a British military commander and medical officer.
[1] Blake was born in Great Yarmouth, with doctors on both sides of his family, and was educated at Framlingham College.
He graduated from the University of Durham and entered the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1908, going on to be a surgeon at the Cancer Hospital, Brompton.
[2] In 1943, Blake became the Superintendent of Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where he came into contact with the pioneering orthopaedic specialist Ludwig Guttmann.
Major-General Blake appears as a character in the BBC's 2012 production, The Best of Men, played by Nicholas Jones.