John Blakiston (c. 1603–1649), was a member of the English parliament, one of the regicides of King Charles I of England, a prominent mercer and coal merchant, puritan and anti-Episcopalian.
[3] He was a fervent financial supporter of the Puritans migrating to America, though he himself never left the country.
In 1636 he entered into an ideological dispute with Yeldard Alvey, an Arminian vicar at Newcastle, accusing him of heresy.
Alvey emerged victorious from the fray, thanks to the support from Archbishop William Laud.
[8] He's a minor character in Robert Wilton's novel Traitor's Field, published in May 2013 by Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books.