John Brickdale Blakeway

John Brickdale Blakeway (24 June 1765 – 10 March 1826) was an English barrister, cleric and topographer.

When his prospects of family money changed, he decided to enter the Church of England, and was ordained in 1793.

Edward Blakeway, to the ministry of the Royal Peculiar of St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury.

On his uncle's death he became official of the peculiar, and also succeeded him in the vicarage of Neen Savage in Shropshire, and in the rectory of Felton, Somerset.

He died at the Council House, Shrewsbury, on 10 March 1826 aged 60, and was buried in St. Mary's Church, where a monument, executed by John Carline, was erected to his memory.

Portrait of Rev. John Brickdale Blakeway