Patrick Charles Bentley Blair (18 July 1891 – 6 July 1915) was a Scottish rugby union player.
Blair was born in Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, the son of Rev. Charles Patrick Blair and Jeanie Bogle Smith Blair. [1] He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he played rugby and field hockey, and King's College, Cambridge. [2] where he played for the King's College team and Cambridge University RFC.
Blair was capped five times for Scotland in 1912–13, [3] against South Africa, Wales, Ireland, England and France. [2]
After earning a first-class degree at Cambridge, Blair joined the Egyptian Civil Service's Finance Department. After World War I began, he returned to Cambridge for military training. He was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in March 1915. Four months later, he was killed by a shell in Boezinge, Flanders. [2] He is buried in the Talana Farm Cemetery. [4]