Peter Hunter Blair (22 March 1912 – 9 September 1982)
was an English academic and historian specializing in the
Anglo-Saxon period
Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of ...
. 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 ...
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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
Durham School is an independent boarding and day school in the English public school tradition located in Durham, North East England and was an all-boys institution until 1985, when girls were admitted to the sixth form. The school takes pupils a ...
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 mon ...
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Hunter Blair was a fellow of Emmanuel College and Reader in the
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[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).]
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See also
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A History of England
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1912 births
1982 deaths
Anglo-Saxon studies scholars
20th-century British historians
Fellows of the British Academy
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