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| | James Blair Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography |
 | | Blair was politically powerful enough to effect the dismissal of three strong royal governors and has been called, for his period, "the most articulate spokesman in Virginia" against the exercise of royal authority. |
 | | Blair was born sometime between May 1655 and May 1656, the son of Robert Blair, minister of Avah in Banffshire, Scotland in 1667, at the age of twelve, young James entered the preparatory grammar school at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and matriculated at the University of Edinburgh in 1669. |
 | | Blair developed a friendship with one of the members of the board, John Locke, and coauthored with him "Some of the Chief Greivances of the present Constitution of Virginia with an Essay towards the Remedies thereof," an essay which was the basis for a longer report written by Blair, Henry Hartwell, and Edward Chilton. |
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