BLACKMORE, SIR RICHARD (c. English physician and writer, was born at Corsham, in Wiltshire, and educated at Westminster school and St. Edmund hall, Oxford. After graduating in medicine at Padua, he settled in practice as a physician in London, and held the office of physician in ordinary both to William III. and Anne. Blackmore was a prolific writer of verse. His Prince Arthur, an Heroick Poem in X Books ap peared in 1695, and was followed by six other long poems before 1723. Of these Creation . . . 0712), a philosophic poem intended to unfold the intellectual philosophy of Locke, was the most favourably received.