Education
Balliol College; University of Glasgow.
Balliol College; University of Glasgow.
He was 23 years old, and a lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen"s Bays), British Army, attached to 9th Lancers (The Queen"s Royal) during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 28 September 1857 at Bolandshahr, India for which he was awarded the Venture capital. Blair was a graduate of University of Glasgow and a Snell exhibitioner at Balliol College, Oxford. Blair joined the army in 1855 in the service of the 9th Lancers and later transferred to the 2nd Dragoon Guards. He was the cousin of another Indian Mutiny Venture capital recipient James Blair.