Robert Blair, Lord Avontoun

(1741-1811)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Blair, Robt. (Robert), 1741-1811 NRA: Blair Robert (1741-1811) Judge DNB: Blair, Robert, Lord Avontoun (1741-1811), judge LBT ID: RoBlair1811 VIAF ID: 11391140 LOC ID: n88070585	B/BAP: 1741 DIED: 1811-05-20
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Scottish advocate and Lord President of the Court of Session (1808); he was the son of the author of The Grave and a friend of Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO Robert Blair, Lord Avontoun: Walter Scott to Lady Diana Scott of Harden, 28 May 1811 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 1 July 1811 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 14 January 1818 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1810-11 Found 2: ¶ 18 ¶ n1 Chapter IV 1818