Louis Edmund Blaze, JP, OBE, BA (Calcutta), (29 September 1861 – 4 August 1951) was a Sri Lankan educationist and the founder and the first principal of Kingswood College, Kandy (1891–1923).

[5][6] His grand parents, John Henry Blaze and Margareta Caroline née de Joodt,[4][7] were headmaster and headmistress of schools in Paiyagala in the Kalutara District.

[1][3][6] His eldest brother, John Thomas (1853–1921), studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, was admitted to the bar in June 1877[8] and became a lecturer in law and editor of the newspaper, Ceylon Examiner.

[4][7] In 1880 at age nineteen he passed the first examination in Arts at the University of Calcutta,[1][2][3][10] following which he took up an appointment as the head master of the lower school at Trinity College.

[1][3][4][10] Uncertain as to whether his career lay in education he resigned a month later[2] to become a law student[1] however he was more interested in literature and cultivated a talent for writing poetry.

[10] The first ever inter-school match in Ceylon was held on 11 August 1906 between Kingswood and Trinity at the Bogambara Grounds, which ended in a six-all draw.

Before his retirement he planned the removal of the school from the small premises it occupied in Brownrigg Street relocating it, in 1925,[1][7] to the village of Wel-Ata in Mulgampola, then a quiet suburb of Kandy.

[6] The couple's only surviving daughter, Ray, became a journalist and played a prominent role in the early years of the Girl Guides Association.