Francis Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye

Who was Francis Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye?

Francis George Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, known as Sir Francis Blackwood, 7th Baronet from 1979 until 1988, was a British baronet and a peer in the Peerage of Ireland.

After the extinction of the male line of the fourth Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, the Barony of Dufferin and Claneboye reverted to the male line of the youngest son of Dorcas, the first Baroness of Dufferin and Claneboye. That first Blackwood baronet was his great grandfather Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood.