Just two years younger than his brother, John Blackmore, born in 1694 and baptised at St Martin Pomeroy. He was treated equally with his brothers under his father’s will, and shared the residue of his mother’s estate, including property in Fenchurch Street and the Old Jewry, equally with his sister Elizabeth.
In June 1726, Raymond leased a huge number of fee farm rents in Hertfordshire to John:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...4-a045-56fff13
Also in 1726, John was appointed executor of his aunt Elizabeth Loder’s estate:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...55c&pId=693679
Her daughter Ann had died, leaving three small children. Around 1729, (then living in Chelsea) he brought a court case on behalf of her surviving grandchildren, Philip and Charlotte Whitley, against their father Thomas Whitley and various members of the Loder family:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ls/r/C10463957
On 16 Feb 1731, Raymond Blackmore granted Fee Farm Rents in Hertfordshire to John for life:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...2-35cec1c228f4
On 14 May 1732, William Bedcott, a wax chandler of Pall Mall named John (then of Sudbury in Harrow, Middlesex) as executor of his will, and left him all he had. This William was a family friend, having witnessed, together with his then wife Penelope, Anne Blackmore senior’s will.
Since so many people chose John as an executor, I assume that he was a trustworthy and diligent administrator. Goodness knows what perceived slight caused Raymond to attempt to cut him off with a shilling? All I can say is that he does not appear to have a taste for such stylised grandeur as Bailey Park: certainly his name does not appear to be connected with Sussex.
I have yet to discover what happened to John after his brother’s death. He was clearly in touch with his youngest and only surviving brother, Henry, for it is to Henry that I am indebted for the news of John’s death:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...4-ed349aefe366
John was buried at Stamford All Saints, Lincolnshire on 30th May 1747:
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...BUR%2F01250537
I can find no evidence of a will. Did he die before he had time to make one? Or had he spent lavishly, and left nothing behind? That sexton's receipt, which surely should be dated 14 June 1747, not 1748, suggest that there may have been few to mourn him in Stamford.