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William Thomas '''"W.T." Blair''' was a leading abolitionist in Bath. He was the first Mayor of Bath elected under a new Municipal Corporations Act in 1836. Blair had spent two years observing at first hand the effects of slavery in the British colony at the Cape of Good Hope.

Life
Blair worked for the East India Company and came to notice when h

in 1840 his portrait was included with other notables in a painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London.

Works
London: [British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society], [1844.] 1890.e.4.(29.) Clarkson: delivered in the city of New-York; December, 1846 ... Together with "Freedom: a poem", read on the same occasion by Charles L. Reason. New York: Egbert, Hovey & King, 1847, 44pp. 10817.bbb.23.(1.) Second edition. With an introduction by W.T. Blair. London: Houlston & Stoneman; London: C. Gilpin, 1849, 76pp. 10815.aaa.6.
 * BLAIR, William Thomas. On the introduction of slavegrown produce into the British markets. [A letter.]
 * CRUMMELL, Alexander. The man: the hero: the Christian! A eulogy on the life and character of Thomas