Peter Hunter Blair, (22 March 1912 â 9 September 1982) was an English academic and historian specializing in the Anglo-Saxon period.
He was the son of Charles Henry Hunter Blair and his wife Alice Maude Mary France. He was educated at Durham School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Hunter Blair was a fellow of Emmanuel College and Reader in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.
In 1970, Hunter Blair was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 1980 to a Fellowship of British Academy.
In 1969 Blair married his third wife, the children's author Pauline Clarke. She edited his Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in 1984.