First professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at Edinburgh University Well known for his defence of the genuineness of the poems attributed by James MacPherson to Ossian.
Only child of John Blair, a clerk, and Martha Ogston, the daughter of a bookseller. Married his cousin Katherine Bannatine on April 19,1748. His only child, Katherine, born in 1749, died when twenty. The family had lived at Argyle Square only a few months when Katerine became ill. Her death plunged Blair into depression and he stepped away from social and professional duties a some time. He adopted an eight year old orphaned daughter (Jemima Hunter Blair) of his friend, David Hunter, Minister of St. Andrews; she became chief beneficiary in Blair's will. Blair died on December 27, 1800, at eighty-three.
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First professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at Edinburgh University Well known for his defence of the genuineness of the poems attributed by James MacPherson to Ossian.
Only child of John Blair, a clerk, and Martha Ogston, the daughter of a bookseller. Married his cousin Katherine Bannatine on April 19,1748. His only child, Katherine, born in 1749, died when twenty. The family had lived at Argyle Square only a few months when Katerine became ill. Her death plunged Blair into depression and he stepped away from social and professional duties a some time. He adopted an eight year old orphaned daughter (Jemima Hunter Blair) of his friend, David Hunter, Minister of St. Andrews; she became chief beneficiary in Blair's will. Blair died on December 27, 1800, at eighty-three.
More can be found on Hugh Blair here.
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