Walter Blake (politician)

1672–May 1748), 6th Bt., was a minor Irish aristocrat and politician from County Galway.

During the Williamite war in Ireland, he was a captain in Colonel Dillon's Regiment of Foot of King James II's Irish Army.

He was the first Roman Catholic of distinction to join William of Orange's forces, where he raised and maintained a regiment at his own expense.

Blake lived in Menlough, County Galway.

Blake died in May 1748 in Marlborough Street, Dublin.