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Peter Hunter Blair (22 March 1912 – 9 September 1982) was an English academic and historian specializing in the Anglo-Saxon period. In 1969 he married his third wife, the children's author
Pauline Clarke Pauline Clarke (19 May 1921 – 23 July 2013) was an English author who wrote for younger children under the name Helen Clare, for older children as Pauline Clarke, and more recently for adults under her married name Pauline Hunter Blair. He ...
. She edited his ''Anglo-Saxon Northumbria'' in 1984.


Life

He was the son of Charles Henry Hunter Blair and his wife Alice Maude Mary France. He was educated at Durham School and
Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican m ...
. Hunter Blair was a fellow of Emmanuel College and Reader in the
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC or, informally, ASNaC) is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge, and focuses on the history, material culture, languages and literatures of the various peoples who i ...
.Peter Hunter Blair, 'Whitby as a Centre of Learning in the Seventh Century', in ''Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 3-32 (at p. 3, fn. 1).


Selected publications

* * * * * * * (Reprint of essays by Peter Hunter Blair published 1939 to 1976)


See also

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* * 1912 births 1982 deaths Anglo-Saxon studies scholars 20th-century British historians Fellows of the British Academy {{UK-historian-stub