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Blakeway Mews is a tiny cul-de-sac in Gains Park, Shrewsbury, but behind the name stands one of the giants of Shrewsbury history.
John Brickdale Blakeway (1765-1826) was born in Shrewsbury, his father being a prosperous merchant. He went first to Shrewsbury School and then on to Westminster, from whence he went up to Oxford. [footnote 1] At Oxford he distinguished himself as a Latin and Greek scholar (later he would also teach himself Hebrew), and after Oxford went into the legal profession, being called to the bar in 1789. At that time one had to support oneself to become a successful barrister, so when his father became bankrupt he found that this was no longer possible. He therefore retrained for the Christian ministry, and was ordained in 1793.
In those days obtaining a vicar’s appointment depended largely on one’s connections. Through his uncle Rev Edward Blakeway, John Brickdale became Vicar of St Mary’s Shrewsbury in 1794 and in addition became Vicar of Neen Savage in south Shropshire and Felton in Somerset. In 1800 he also became Vicar of Kinlet, Shropshire. Such ‘pluralities’ were not uncommon in those days – they often resulted in vicars living in considerable luxury while overworked and underpaid curates did all the work. In fairness to Blakeway, however, by 1
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Biography
I joined St Andrews in 2019 after three years at the University of Kent, where I was Senior Lecturer in Sixteenth-Century British History and co-Director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Before that I held a Junior Research Fellowship at Homerton College, University of Cambridge (I also received my PhD from Cambridge in 2010). In 2011-12 I was the Fulbright Robertson Visiting Professor of British History at Westminster College in Missouri. I have held visiting research fellowships at the Huntington Library in California, at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh's Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities.
Research areas
I am a historian of sixteenth-century Scotland. For the academic year 2023-4 I have funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for a research project on the Anglo-Scottish wars of the minority of Mary, Queen of Scots, including writing a monograph and delivering workshops on this subject in primary schools and high schools throughout Scotland. If you are a teacher and are interested, please get in touch!
My research interests range politics with a big P (parliaments, monarchs and Scotland's relations with France and England) and a little p (propaganda, resistance and burgh communities).