| Alexander Blair | |||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Alexander Stevenson Blair | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 3 June 1865 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||
| Death Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||
| Ru Position: | Three Quarters | ||||||||||
| Amatteam1: | Oxford University | ||||||||||
| School: | Loretto School | ||||||||||
| University: | Brasenose College, Oxford | ||||||||||
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Alexander Blair was a Scottish rugby union player. He was the 36th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He became a Colonel in the army and then became President of the British Legion and Chairman of the Earl Haig Fund. An advocate to trade he was a Writer to the Signet. He received a CBE in the New Years Honours List of 1933.[1]
After attending Loretto School,[2] Blair went to Brasenose College in Oxford.[3] He played for Oxford University,[4] and was in the 1st XV.[5] He was secretary of both the rugby and athletics club of the university.[1]
He was Secretary of the Scottish Rugby Union for 4 years from 1886.[1]
Blair was on the International Rugby Board in 1889.[6]
He became the 36th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He served one year from 1909 to 1910.[7]
First as Lieutenant Colonel, then Colonel, Blair commanded the 'Dandy Ninth', the Lothian Regiment of the Royal Scots, in the First World War.[8] In 1916 he was awarded a CMG.[1]
After the war he joined the British Legion where he became treasurer in Scotland.
Blair's firm, Strathearn and Blair, acted as solicitors for the Scottish Rugby Union.[9] Blair was a Writer to the Signet.[1]
He is buried in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.[10]