Harry William Blackburne DSO,[1] MC (25 January 1878 – 31 May 1963) was an Anglican clergyman, Dean of Bristol[2][3] from 1934[4] to 1951.
[6] After service as a trooper in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry during the Second Boer War he was ordained in 1902.
An Honorary Chaplain to the King he was a Canon of St George's, Windsor until his appointment to the Deanery.
His brother Lionel Blackburne was Dean of Ely, one son Hugh a Bishop of Thetford and another, Kenneth, the first governor-general of Jamaica.
Personal papers belonging to Blackburne are held in the archives at The Museum of Army Chaplaincy.