Peter Hunter Blair, (22 March 1912 – 9 September 1982) was an English academic and historian specializing in the Anglo-Saxon period.

Life

He was the son of Charles Henry Hunter Blair and his wife Alice Maude Mary France. He was educated at

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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 mo ...

. 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 ...

. In 1970, Hunter Blair was elected a fellow of the

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and in 1980 to a Fellowship of British Academy.

Wife

In 1969 Blair married his third wife, the children's author Pauline Clarke. She edited his ''Anglo-Saxon Northumbria'' in 1984.

Selected publications

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

References

Bibliography

External links

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Life of Peter Hunter Blair, by Peter Clemoes, The British Academy, 1985
1912 births 1982 deaths Anglo-Saxon studies scholars 20th-century British historians Fellows of the British Academy {{UK-historian-stub