Patrick Blair (footballer)
Patrick Blair may refer to: * Patrick Blair (rugby union) * Patrick Blair (surgeon) Patrick Blair FRS (ca.1670–1728) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist and botanist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Life It is uncertain when he was born. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests he was born in Lethendy, near Pe ...

Patrick Blair (rugby Union)
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. He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he played rugby and field hockey, and King's College, Cambridge. where he played for the King's College team and Cambridge University RFC. Blair was capped five times for in 1912–13, against , , , and . 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 Boezinge (; vls, Boezienge) is a village in the municipality of Ypres in the Belgian province of West Flanders. Boezinge can be reached via the N369 road in the direction of Diksmuide. It was an independent ...
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