Kenneth Blair
Early life. He was born in 1882 at Nottingham to William Nisbet Blair and Annie Elizabeth Gloyne and educated, in London, at Highgate School and Birkbeck College. Career. In 1910 he joined the Natural History Museum, London as an assistant and became deputy keeper of entomology in 1932. He received his doctorate from the University of London in 1936 and was appointed president of the Royal Entomological Society in 1940 and 1941. Dr Blair retired to Freshwater, Isle of Wight, in 1943 where he discovered three moths which bear his name. He published a number of papers on  Coleoptera and Lepidoptera including lists of beetles and moths for the Isles of Scilly which greatly added to the knowledge of the natural history of the islands. The three moths which bear his name are, World War I. Blair enlisted in 1914 and served in France with the Seaforth Highlanders. He was invalided twice before being discharged in 1917.