Gerald Blake (academic)

{{short description|British geographer}}

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Gerald Henry Blake is a retired British academic and geographer. He is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Durham University.{{cite web|title=Emeritus Titles|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/university.calendar/volumei/emeritus_titles/|publisher=Durham University|accessdate=6 March 2014}} He was Principal of Collingwood College, Durham from 1987 to 2001.{{cite web|title=International Boundaries Research Unit|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/dialogue/spring09/spotlight/ibru/|publisher=Durham University|accessdate=6 March 2014}}{{cite news|title=Peaceful borderlands made in Durham|url=http://issuu.com/durhamfirst/docs/www.dunelm.org.uk|accessdate=6 March 2014|newspaper=Durham First|year=2010|page=10|format=pdf}}

He attended Monkton Combe School from 1949 to 1954. A former student of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Blake was appointed Professor of Geography in 1995.{{cite book |last1=Moyes |first1=Arthur |title=Hatfield 1846-1996 |date=1996 |page=342}}