Educated in Epping where he met Henry Doubleday who may have influenced him to become interested in entomology. Certainly he collected Lepidoptera as well as Coleoptera. His home in England was in Wandsworth, London where he died.
As a result of ill health Blackmore took to making annual visits to Morocco, and it was there that his best entomological work was done. He devoted himself 'to a study of the Insect fauna of the country, making many and valuable discoveries' (Ent.mon.Mag., 13, 1876,116). 'Captures of Coleoptera from South Morocco’ in Ent.mon.Mag., 11, 1874, 213-17, records some of these.
FES 1864 –1876. (MD 10/01)
Dates
1835-3 September 1876