Edith Blake

**Edith Bernal, Lady Blake** (née **Osborne**; 7 Febụwarị 1846 - 18 Eprel 1926) bụ onye Irish na-ese ihe osise na onye edemede, amaara maka ọrụ ya na osisi na anụmanụ nke mba ndị dị ka Bahamas, Jamaica na Ceylon . 

## Oge ọ malitere
A mụrụ Blake na 7 Febụwarị 1846 na Newtown Anner House, nso Clonmel, County Tipperary. Ọ bụ ezie na a na-ekwukarị ụbọchị a mụrụ ya na 1845. Ọ bụ nwa nwanyị mbụ nke Catherine Isabella Osborne na Ralph Bernal Osborne, bụ ndị were aha nwunye ya mgbe ha lụsịrị na 1844. Osbornes yiri ka ha kewapụrụ onwe ha n'oge ha lụrụ di na nwunye, nna ya bi na London, na-ahụ Edith na Grace ya ka nne ya zụlitere naanị ya. Oriakụ Osbourne  onye na-ese ihe nwere nkà, ma gbaa ụmụ ya nwanyị abụọ ume ka ha malite ọrụ nka. Ndị -ese ihe na-anọkarị na Newtown Anner, gụnyere Thomas Shotter Boys na Alexandre Calame, ọ ga-ekwe omume na ụmụnne nwanyị natara ha agụmakwụkwọ. Edith zụlitere mmasị na botany n'oge a, na-edegara onye na-emepụta ubi nke Newtown Anner Joseph Paxton akwụkwọ ozi kemgbe ọtụtụ afọ. Fanny Currey bụ onye na-eleta ụlọ ahụ ugboro ugboro, ha abụọ na-arụkọ ọrụ ọnụ n'ise envelopu site na 1858 ruo 1868. 

N'afọ 1874 ọ lụrụ onye di ya nwụrụ na onye nyocha nke Royal Irish Constabulary Henry Arthur Blake.  ka ndị mụrụ ya anabataghị alụmdi na nwunye ahụ ma na-ahazi alụmdi na ụba kwesịrị ekwesị maka ya, di na nwunye ahụ gbapụrụ. Mgbe alụmdi na nwunye ahụ gasịrị, a napụrụ Edith ihe nketa. Ndị enyi Richard na Harriet Bagwell nke Marlfield House chebere ha ruo oge ụfọdụ. Di na nwunye ahụ gara n'ihu mụọ ụmụ nwoke abụọ na nwa nwanyị. Ha bu ụzọ kwaga Belfast, na-ahụ Henry ka a họpụtara dị ka onye ọka iwu (RM) na 1876 na "RM pụrụ iche" n'oge agha ala. Mgbe ọ natara egwu igbu ọchụ, Edith ga-eso ya na-eme njem na égbè. 'agbanyeghị ọrụ di ya, Blake nwere ọmịiko maka ịhụ mba n'anya ma bụrụ enyi Anna Parnell.

## Ihe osise na ederede
Blake gara Europe na 1872, na-eleta Austria, (Germany), Italy, Sicily, Greece, na Turkey. N'oge nleta ndị a, o sere ihe osise nke ụlọ, nka, na ọdịbendị nke o bipụtara n'akwụkwọ mbụ ya Twelve months in southern Europe (1876). Mbipụta nke abụọ Blake bipụtara bụ The realities of Freemasonry na 1879. Di Blake natara nhọpụta mbụ ya n'ọrụ ndị Britain na 1884, dị ka gọvanọ nke Bahamas 1884 ruo 1887, Newfoundland sochiri ya 1887 ruo 1888, Jamaica 1889 ruo 1897, Hong Kong 1898 ruo 1903, na Ceylon 1903 ruo 1907. Blake sooro ya mee njem, kama ime ka ndị obodo Bekee na-anọghị n'obodo ahụ nwee obi ụtọ, o lekwasịrị anya n'oge ya na botany na eserese. Ọ mụrụ osisi na anụmanụ dị n'ógbè ahụ na watercolour, nke o sere site na okike. E gosipụtara ihe ndị a na Museum of Science and Art, Dublin na 1894. 196 n'ime ọmụmụ ya banyere usoro ndụ nke Jamaican lepidoptera dị n'ọbá akwụkwọ entomology nke Natural History Museum, London, na ọtụtụ n'ime ọrụ ya dị na National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.  na-ekwu na mgbe ọ nọ na Bahamas, e sere ya na agwọ a na-akpa n'úkwù ya.

## Akwụkwọ ndị a họọrọ

### Akụkọ na-abụghị akụkọ ifo

* Ọnwa iri na abụọ na Southern Europe. London, 1876.
* *Eziokwu nke Freemasonry*. Chapman na Hall, London, 1879.
* "The Maroons of Jamaica" na The North American Review, Vol. 167 (1898), peeji nke 558-568.

* *Eve nke Samhain*
* *Ọchịchọ nke Edain*
* *Swan*

## Ihe odide

## Njikọ mpụga

* Ntinye Blake na Database of Scientific Illustrators
* Lady Edith Blake, onye Irish na-asụ ọtụtụ asụsụ, onye na-ese ihe ọkụkụ na onye na-ede njem - Irish Times