Archibald Blair (burgess)

For British navigator, see Archibald Blair.

Archibald Blair
Member of the House of Burgesses from Jamestown, Colony of Virginia
In office
1728-1733
Preceded byWilliam Broadnax Jr.
Succeeded byJohn Blair Sr.
Member of the House of Burgesses from James City County, Colony of Virginia
In office
1720-1726
Preceded byWilliam Broadnax
Succeeded byJohn Eaton
Member of the House of Burgesses from Jamestown, Colony of Virginia
In office
1718
Preceded byWilliam Broadnax
Succeeded byJohn Clayton
Personal details
Bornc. 1665 (1665)
Scotland
DiedMarch 4, 1733(1733-03-04) (aged 67–68)
Williamsburg, Virginia
Resting placeBruton Parish
Children10, including John Blair, Jr.
RelativesJames Blair (brother); John Blair Sr. (brother)
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Occupationphysician, merchant, politician, planter

Archibald Blair (c. 1665 – March 4, 1733) was a Scottish-born physician, merchant, planter and politician. Born in Roxburghshire, he moved to the English colony of Virginia in the 1690s. Blair served in the House of Burgesses multiple times, alternately representing the colony's capital and surrounding county.[1][2][3] He may be confused with a distant collateral relative, Archibald Blair, who became clerk of the Virginia Governor's Council in 1776 and served for more than 25 years.[4]

  1. ^ Linda H. Rowe, Archibald Blair 1665-1733), Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 1998), vol. 1, pp. 535-536
  2. ^ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915) vol. 1, pp. 187-188
  3. ^ Martha W. McCartney, Jamestown People to 1800: Landowners, Public Officials, Minorities, and Native Leaders (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2012) p. 71
  4. ^ Daphne Gentry, Archibald Blair (1753-1824), Dictionary of Virginia Biography, vol. 1 pp. 536-537