A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blair, Frederic
BLAIR. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 17; h-p., 7.)
Frederic Blair was born 28 Feb. 1809.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 May, 1823, as Midshipman, on board the Egeria 24, Capt. Sam. Roberts, on the Newfoundland station. He subsequently served in the Owen Glendower 42, Capt. Hood Hanway Christian, at the Cape of Good Hope, and Victory 104, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, guardship at Portsmouth; passed his examination, 6 N ov. 1829; and was made Lieutenant into the Warspite 76, Capts. Wm. Henry Shirreff and Jas. Wigston, on the South American station, 10 Feb. 1830. He afterwards joined – 6 Oct. in the same year, the Volage 28, Capt. Lord Colchester, employed in the Pacific and North Sea – 25 Oct. 1833, the Edinburgh 74, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, in the Mediterranean – for a short period in 1835, the Talavera 74, Capt. Edw. Chetham, in which ship he returned to England – 10 April, 1837, the Coast Guard – and, 6 Dec. 1841, as First-Lieutenant, the St. Vincent 120, bearing the flag, at Portsmouth, of Sir Edw. Codrington. He was promoted to his present rank 7 March, 1842; and, since 23 Dec. 1845, has been employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard.
Commander Blair married, 24 April, 1837, Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. C. Massingberd, Rector of Kettlethorpe, co. Lincoln, by whom he has issue three children.