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Robert Blair (minister)

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honoring Blair was installed by the parishioners in the church at Cambuslang in 1908. Blair was also memorialized by a bust in St. Columba's Church, Glasgow and a window in
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on 23 May 1882, where he succeeded the Rev. Dr. James S. Johnstone. Blair was followed at
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by the Rev. James Edward Houston (1892-1908). Blair moved to St John's parish church,
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His wife remarried and died in Oban but chose to be buried with Robert when she died.
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In 1905 he is listed as living at 12 Clarendon Crescent, close to Dean Bridge in
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Blair died on 4 November 1907 in Edinburgh and was buried near his home, in
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The ornate south side of the grave in Dean Cemetery
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Robert Blair (moderator)



Scottish
Bullwood
Dunoon
Bowmore
Islay
Glasgow University
M.A.
licensed
Presbytery
Kintyre
Saddell
ordained
Tarbert
Loch Fyne
St Columba's Church, Glasgow
Gaelic
Cambuslang
Cambuslang
Edinburgh
Doctorate of Divinity
Glasgow University
chaplain
Glasgow Highlanders
Volunteer Officers' Decoration
Flora Anne Cameron
Duncan Cameron

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