Head (Blackadder) Head (Blackadder) "Head" is the second episode of the BBC period comedy "Blackadder II", the second series of "Blackadder", which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. Blackadder is attempting to teach Baldrick the basic concepts of addition when he is appointed Lord High Executioner and Minister for Religious Genocide (because the previous incumbent signed his name on the wrong dotted line and so accidentally ordered his own execution). To give himself the middle of the week off, he makes a simple change by moving up the date of execution for Lord Farrow (from Wednesday to Monday). However,
John Blackadder (preacher) was Colonel John Blackadder (born 14 September 1664), later governor of Stirling Castle. Andrew Crichton, author of the "Life of Colonel Blackadder", compiled the "Memoirs of the Rev. John Blackadder" in 1826, mostly unpublished manuscripts written during his imprisonment. John Blackadder is commemorated by the Blackadder kirk in North Berwick, a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland formed following the Disruption of 1843. The congregation united with the congregation of St Andrew's in 1989, to form the congregation of St Andrew Blackadder. John Blackadder (preacher) John Blackadder (or Blackader) (ca. 1622–1685) was an eminent Presbyterian Covenanter preacher in Scotland