Patrick Blair (rugby union)
Scotland international rugby union player (1891–1915)
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Patrick Charles Bentley Blair (18 July 1891 – 6 July 1915) was a Scottish rugby union player.
Biography
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]
Patrick is listed among the memorial to the 133 rugby players lost in the Great War at Fromelles in the north of France.
