Rector of Rotherhithe 1835-67. The old parish church was St Mary the Virgin in St Marychurch Street, Rotherhithe, on the west side of the peninsula.
Apparently the area on the other side of the peninsula was known as 'downtown' Rotherhithe. Blick considered that St Marys was too far from the downtown area so he raised funds and, on land provided by the Commercial Dock Company, he had built: Trinity Church and also Trinity School.
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From the Bonney book: "Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. ... He was a native of Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire but was brought up at Tamworth, in Staffordshire, his father being the vicar of Tamworth and headmaster of Tamworth grammar school. Mr Blick's brother was Fellow and Bursar of St John's College, Cambridge, ... he left behind him three new parish churches beside the chapel-of-ease (St Paul's) for the lower end of the mother church district. .... During Mr Blick's incumbency the following school buildings were erected: (1) St Mary's National School in Deptford Road for boys, girls, and infants, erected in 1836 and enlarged in 1865 ; (2) Trinity Church Schools for boys, girls, and infants, erected in 1836; (3) Christ Church Schools in Prospect Place, then called Rose and Rummer Lane, for girls and infants, erected in 1841; (4) two school-rooms for the School of Industry, erected in Clarence Street in 1846; and (5) St Paul's Infant School room, then called the Surrey Canal School, erected in 1847 in Ram Alley, now known as St Paul's Lane. This school-room was built to meet the needs of the isolated district beyond the Surrey Canal, .... The three new churches have been built and consecrated Trinity Church...Christ Church,..All Saints Church....
"Mr Blick brought as a bride to Rotherhithe the faithful wife who ... outlived him several years. She was Miss Louisa Hutchinson of Lichfield, and her brother, the Reverend William Hutchinson, M.A., was Mr Blick's first curate and shortly afterwards became the first incumbent of Holy Trinity Church in 1838. Mrs Blick's sister, Miss Sarah Hutchinson, made her home for some years at Rotherhithe and devoted herself to the work of a district visitor and Sunday School teacher, both at Trinity Church and afterwards at St Paul's Chapel. The Rev. W. Hutchinson {was} the vicar of Blurton near Stoke-upon-Trent ..."
Blick was succeeded by Reverend Edward Josselyn Beck.
A portrait was painted which was last recorded as being in the Public Library.
Blick was buried at the east end of the parish churchyard and a monument to him stands at the west end of the churchyard near the main entrance.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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