Alexander Blair was a Scottish rugby union player. He was the 36th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He became a Colonel in the army and then became President of the British Legion and Chairman of the Earl Haig Fund. An advocate to trade he was a Writer to the Signet. He received a CBE in the New Years Honours List of 1933.^[1]

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First as Lieutenant Colonel, then Colonel, Blair commanded the 'Dandy Ninth', the Lothian Regiment of the Royal Scots, in the First World War.^[8] In 1916 he was awarded a CMG.^[1]

After the war he joined the British Legion where he became treasurer in Scotland.

Blair's firm, Strathearn and Blair, acted as solicitors for the Scottish Rugby Union.^[9] Blair was a Writer to the Signet.^[1]

He is buried in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.^[10]