W.T.Blair | |
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 W T Blair by Edward Kilvert in 1837 | |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Abolitionist |
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.[1] Blair had spent two years observing at first hand the effects of slavery in the British colony at the Cape of Good Hope.[2]
Life
editBlair worked for the East India Company[2] 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
edit- BLAIR, William Thomas. On the introduction of slavegrown produce into the British markets. [A letter.]
London: [British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society], [1844.] 1890.e.4.(29.)
- CRUMMELL, Alexander. The man: the hero: the Christian! A eulogy on the life and character of Thomas
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.
References
edit- ^ The Bath and West of England magazine., p95, Feb., Mar., 1836, accessed January 2010
- ^ a b Anti-Slavery Reporter, accessed January 2010
- ^ The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1841, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG599, Given by British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1880