Blair, Hugh ♂

Education

D.D. 13.6.1757 (gratis).

Birth/childhood

Born 7.4.1718 son of John Blair, merchant, Edinburgh and Martha Ogston.

Career

Educated Edinburgh University - M.A. 1739.

Licensed by Edinburgh presbytery 1741.

Minister at Collessie 1742 - 1743. Canongate 1743 - 1754. Lady Yester’s 1754 - 1758. St Giles, 1758 - 27.12.1800 (died).

Professor of Rhetoric, Edinburgh University 1762 - 1783 (retired). [University professor]

Publications

A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, Son of Fingal (London: Becket and De Hondt, 1763)

Sermons 1777-1801 (5 vols). 16th ed. (Baltimore: Adams, 1792)

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Philadelphia: James Kay, 1847)

etc.

Death

[Died 27.12.1800.]

Sources