General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . -tannica, mentions neither the time of his birthnor his death, though it is very probable thatboth may be apparent on the tomb.— BLAIR, John, a chronologer and geogra-pher, was a native of Scotland, and receivedhis education at Edinburgh. Coming to push hisfortune in England, he first became usher at aschool in Hedge-lane. He made himself knownadvantageously by publishing, in 1754, a workentitled, The Chronology a
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . -tannica, mentions neither the time of his birthnor his death, though it is very probable thatboth may be apparent on the tomb.— BLAIR, John, a chronologer and geogra-pher, was a native of Scotland, and receivedhis education at Edinburgh. Coming to push hisfortune in England, he first became usher at aschool in Hedge-lane. He made himself knownadvantageously by publishing, in 1754, a workentitled, The Chronology and History of theWorld, from the Creation to the Year of Christ1753. Illustrated in fifty-six tables, of whichfour are introductory, and contain the centuriesprior to the first olympiad ; and each of the re-maining fifty-two contains in one expanded viewfifty years, or lialf a century. By the Rev. JohnBlair, This work, was published bysubscription, dedicated to lord-chanecUor Hard-wicke ; and the author acknowledges great ob-ligations to the earl of Bath. Dr. Blair, whoappears to have entered into the English church,was elected fellow of the royal society in 1756,.
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