Chandos Blair

Lieutenant-General Sir Chandos Blair, (25 February 1919 – 22 January 2011) was a senior British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding Scottish Command from 1972 to 1976.

Military career He was the son of Arthur Blair DSO (1869–1947) of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, and his second wife Elizabeth Mary Hoskyns, daughter of Colonel Sir Chandos Hoskyns, 10th Baronet of the Royal Engineers. He was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Seaforth Highlanders on 26 January 1939.

Blair served in the Second World War with the 2nd and 7th Battalions of his regiment. He escaped to Switzerland and from there to Spain and to Gibraltar. As such he was the first officer to return home after escaping from a prisoner of war camp. Blair was awarded the Military Cross for his exploits. Blair retired in 1976.