Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, 8th Baronet
- Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, 8th Baronet
Sir Edward Thomas Hunter Blair, 8th Baronet, landowner and forester, died at Fleet Valley nursing home, 21 October, 2006. He was age 85. He was born 15 December, 1920, son of Sir James Hunter Blair, 7th Baronet, by his wife Jean Galloway McIntyre, and was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.
Career:
Served in World War II for 8 months with the [King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry joined January 1941- discharged September 1941] ; member of Kirkcudbrightshire county council from 1970-1971; Civil Servant, 1941-1943; journalist (assistant Foreign Editor) 1944-1949; Member of the Council of the Wyndham Trust, 1992-1996; Member of the Scottish Association for Public Transport from 1993; President, Dumfries and Galloway Mountaineering Club.He published "Our Troubled Future" his controversial autobiography in 1993 (published by GC Book Publishers Ltd, Wigtown Dumfries & Galloway DG8 9HL)
He succeeded to the baronetcy (created in 1786), on the demise of his father, 1985.
He married Norma, daughter of Walter Sidney Harris a master baker in 1956, and they adopted a son, Alan, and a daughter, Helen.He later married Jonet Clemency Wilson Reid of Robertland daughter of David Wilson Reid of Robertland ,Baron of Robertland and Archivist of Glasgow University and his wife Diana Rosamond Angell secretary of the Baronetage of Scotland (1973-1997).
The baronetcy now devolves upon his kinsman, Patrick David Hunter Blair, born in 1958.
Blair's funeral took place at Straiton Parish Church, 27 October, 2006.
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