Charles Blair, whose inheritance in Jamaica consisted of land and human beings, married Mary Fane, and they had another Charles Blair, who in turn had a youngest son named Thomas Richard Arthur Blair. This grandson of the man dominating the Reynolds painting, this grandfather of the man at the center of this book, went into the church and spent time in India and, apparently, Tasmania. In his thirties, while traveling to and fro from India, the minister Thomas Blair married fifteen-year-old Frances Catherine Hare, whom he met in the Cape of Good Hope in what is now South Africa. They were
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