Patrick Blair (rugby union)

2nd Lt. Patrick Charles Bentley Blair (18 July 1891 – 6 July 1915(1915-07-06) (aged 23)) was a Scottish rugby union player.

For the Scottish surgeon and botanist, see Patrick Blair (surgeon).

Blair was born in Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, the son of Rev. Charles Patrick Blair and Jeanie Bogle Smith Blair.[1] He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he played rugby and field hockey, and King's College, Cambridge.[2] where he played for the King's College team and Cambridge University RFC.

Blair was capped five times for Scotland in 1912–13,[3] against South Africa, Wales, Ireland, England and France.[2]

After earning a first-class degree at Cambridge, Blair joined the Egyptian Civil Service's Finance Department. After World War I began, he returned to Cambridge for military training. He was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in March 1915. Four months later, he was killed by a shell in Boezinge, Flanders.[2] He is buried in the Talana Farm Cemetery.[4]

References
  1. "1891 BLAIR, PATRICK CHARLES BENTLEY (Statutory registers Births 853/B 15)". Scotland's People. National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon.
  2. McCrery, Nigel (2014). Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War. Pen and Sword. p. 161. ISBN 9781781590874.
  3. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
  4. "Casualty: Second Lieutenant Blair, Patrick Charles Bentley". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 23 June 2018.


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