Peter Hunter Blair

Peter Hunter Blair (22 March 1912 – 9 September 1982) was an English academic and historian specializing in the Anglo-Saxon period.

Life
He was the son of Charles Henry Hunter Blair and his wife Alice Maude Mary France. He was educated at Durham School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Hunter Blair was a fellow of Emmanuel College and Reader in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.

Wife
In 1969 Hunter Blair married his third wife, the children's author Pauline Clarke. She edited his Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in 1984.

Writing under her married name, Pauline Hunter Blair, she wrote two books about the life of Nelson, starting with The Nelson Boy (1999), and two novels for adults: Warscape (2002), exploring life in Britain during 1943 to 1945 and the end of the war and start of the atomic era, and Jacob's Ladder (2003), about life in an English village, plus a possible murder, and philosophical reflection on age and time.

Selected publications

 * (Reprint of essays by Peter Hunter Blair published 1939 to 1976)
 * (Reprint of essays by Peter Hunter Blair published 1939 to 1976)
 * (Reprint of essays by Peter Hunter Blair published 1939 to 1976)
 * (Reprint of essays by Peter Hunter Blair published 1939 to 1976)
 * (Reprint of essays by Peter Hunter Blair published 1939 to 1976)
 * (Reprint of essays by Peter Hunter Blair published 1939 to 1976)
 * (Reprint of essays by Peter Hunter Blair published 1939 to 1976)