Blair Hugh

Blair, Hugh, clergyman, was born in 1718 at Edinburgh, where he studied, and after occupying the established pulpits of Collessie, Fifeshire, Canongate, Lady Yester's, and the High church, Edinburgh, he was appointed, in 1762, professor of rhetoric at the university. He wrote a Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, published his Lectures and Sermons, which attracted the notice of George III., who conferred on Blair a pension of £200 a year in 1780. He resigned his professorship in 1783 and died in 1800.