Bleasdale, Rev John Ignatatius D.D., F.G.S.
Born in the parish of Firkham, in the Fylde of Lancasshire in 1822.
Educated in private schools at Preston, and when little more than fourteen years of age entered the English College at Lisbon in 1836, and successfully prosecuted his studies of languages. belles lettres, philosophy, and theology, there for eight years when compelled by ill health to return to England, where he completed his studies at St Mary's College, Oscott under his late Eminence Cardinal Wiseman,by whom his was ordained priest. For five he was employed as garrison chaplain at Weedon, in Northamptonshire, and at Aylesbury. In 1851 he arrived in Melbourne Australia.
Mr Fank Potts who selected for his future homestead and vineyards named his property "BLEASDALE" after the Rev. John Ignatius Bleasdale,D.D. in 1850 at Langhorne Creek South Australia
where for more than 150 years the Potts family have maintain its high tradition of wine making.