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((Short description|British barrister (1923–2012)))
((About|Tony Blair's father|Tony Blair's son|Tony Blair#Family))
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| image              = Leo Blair.jpeg
| alt                = A monochromic full-length photograph of Blair
| caption            = Photograph of Blair in ''[[A Journey]]''
| birth_name         = Charles Leonard Augustus Parsons
| birth_date         = ((birth date|1923|8|4|df=yes))
| birth_place        = [[Filey]], East Yorkshire, England
| death_date         = ((nowrap|((death date and age|2012|11|16|1923|8|4|df=yes))))
| death_place        = [[Shrewsbury]], Shropshire, England
| alma_mater         = [[University of Edinburgh]]
| occupation         = ((hlist|[[Barrister]]|law lecturer))
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* [[Communist Party of Britain|Communist]] (1938–1941)
* [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] (1941–1945)
* [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] (1946–1994)
* [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] (from 1994)
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* ((marriage|Hazel Corscadden McLay|1948|1975|end=died))
* ((marriage|Olwen Guy|1980|March 2012|end=her death))
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'''Leo Charles Lynton Blair''' (born '''Charles Leonard Augustus Parsons'''; 4 August 1923((spaced ndash))16 November 2012) was a British [[barrister]] and law lecturer at [[Durham University]].<ref name="bbc">((cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20354638|title=Tony Blair's father Leo dies at the age of 89|date=16 November 2012|work=BBC News|access-date=24 February 2018))</ref> He was the author of the book ''The Commonwealth Public Service''.  He was the father of [[Sir Tony Blair]], the former [[prime minister of the United Kingdom]], and of [[Sir William Blair]], a [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|High Court judge]].

== Early life ==
Born Charles Leonard Augustus Parsons in [[Filey]], East Riding of Yorkshire, England, he was the illegitimate<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/21/adoptionandfostering.localgovernment1 |title=Blair: 'Why adoption is close to my heart' |date=21 December 2000 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=24 February 2018))</ref> son of two middle class travelling entertainers. His father, Charles Parsons (1887–1970), had the stage name Jimmy Lynton while his mother, Mary Augusta Ridgway Bridson (1886–1969), was known as Celia Ridgway and was a daughter of Augustus William Bridson (1849–1933) and Maria Emily Montford (1864–1944).<ref>((cite journal |first=Edward J. |last=Davies |title=A Descent of Tony Blair from James V, King of Scots |journal=[[The Genealogist]] |volume=22 |year=2008 |pages=247–55))</ref> The couple met on tour in England. Their hectic lifestyles prompted them to give up baby Leo, who was [[foster care|fostered]] out to (and later adopted by) a working-class couple, a [[Glasgow]] shipyard worker named James Blair and his wife Mary, taking their surname. On 2 June 1927, his biological parents married and tried to reclaim him, but Mary Blair refused to return him and later prevented him from contacting his birth parents. (Leo later had a reunion with his half-sister, Pauline Harding, ((nee|Tordiffe)).)

Blair grew up in a [[tenement]] in Golspie Street, [[Govan, Glasgow]], and attended [[Govan High School]]. When he left school, he worked as a [[copy boy]] on the [[Communist Party of Great Britain|Communist Party]] newspaper ''[[Morning Star (British newspaper)|The Daily Worker]]''. He was secretary of the Scottish Young Communist League from 1938 to 1941. 

Blair next worked briefly in the Glasgow City Public Assistance Department before enlisting in the [[Royal Corps of Signals]] for service in the [[Second World War]] in 1942; he was demobilised with the acting rank of major in 1947.((r|independent))

He studied law at the [[University of Edinburgh]],<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/blair-s-birthplace-is-bulldozed-in-edinburgh-1-994946|title=Blair's birthplace is bulldozed in Edinburgh|newspaper=[[The Scotsman]] |access-date=24 February 2018))</ref> becoming a barrister and later, a university law lecturer.

== Marriage and children ==
Blair married Hazel Elizabeth Rosaleen Corscadden from a [[Protestant]] family in [[County Donegal]], Ireland. They were married by the future Moderator, Rev [[William Roy Sanderson]], at [[Barony Church]] in Glasgow.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/very-rev-w-roy-sanderson-1-1077319|title=Very Rev W Roy Sanderson|newspaper=The Scotsman |date=24 June 2008 |access-date=24 February 2018))</ref> They had two sons, both of whom attended [[Fettes College]] (an independent school in Edinburgh), and a daughter.((r|independent)) Their first son, [[Sir William Blair]], a banking and finance law specialist, became a [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|High Court judge]]. Their second son, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair ([[Tony Blair]]), was born in 1953 and also became a barrister before becoming a politician and, in 1997, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]. At the end of 1954, the family moved to [[Adelaide, Australia]], for ((frac|3|1|2)) years, where Blair lectured in law at the [[University of Adelaide]].

Blair and his family later returned to England, living in [[Durham, England|Durham]], where Blair lectured in law at [[Durham Law School|Durham University Law School]]. He was a member of [[St Cuthbert's Society]], one of the university's collegiate bodies. In 1959, he was awarded a PhD from the University of Edinburgh for a thesis entitled "The legal status of the governmental employee".<ref>((cite report |last=Blair |first=Leo |date=1959 |title=The legal status of the governmental employee : a comparative study |url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/34786 |language=en))</ref> Despite having been a [[communist]] in his youth, Leo became active in the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]. He had ambitions to stand for [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] in Durham, hoping to become a candidate in the [[1964 United Kingdom general election|1964 general election]], which were thwarted when he suffered a stroke in 1963 at the age of 40. Following Blair's stroke, he had to rely heavily on his wife Hazel to look after him.<ref>((cite news |title=Family tragedy at the heart of Blair's ambition |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/apr/27/tonyblair.labour |access-date=30 July 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=27 April 2003 |first=Kamal |last=Ahmed))</ref>

== Later life ==
Blair joined the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] when his son became its leader in 1994, citing pride at his son's achievements, his dissatisfaction with the Conservatives under [[John Major]] and his objection to [[Privatisation of British Rail|railway privatisation]].<ref name="independent">((cite web |last=Childs |first=Martin |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/leo-blair-barrister-who-began-as-a-conservative-but-followed-his-son-into-the-labour-party-8327053.html |title=Leo Blair: Barrister who began as a Conservative but followed his son into the Labour Party |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=19 November 2012 |access-date=24 February 2018))</ref> He had previously been "a huge supporter" of Conservative prime minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref>((cite book |last=Moore |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Moore (journalist) |year=2015 |title=Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants |volume=2 |url=((Google books|LU_ZCQAAQBAJ|plainurl=yes)) |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-241-20126-8 |page=579))</ref>

Blair's first wife, Hazel (12 June 1923((snd))28 June 1975), died of [[thyroid cancer]]. He remarried and lived in [[Shrewsbury, Shropshire]], with his second wife, Olwen, until her death on 15 March 2012. Cherie and Tony Blair named their youngest son Leo after him.

Blair was a "militant atheist", according to his son Tony.<ref>((cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/10/22/VI2009102201870.html |title=Blair: 'Tony Blair on finding religion via reason' |date=December 2009 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=29 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304131001/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/10/22/VI2009102201870.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead))</ref>

Blair died in [[Shrewsbury]] aged 89 on 16 November 2012.<ref name=bbc />((r|independent))

== Academic work ==
Blair's book ''The Commonwealth Public Service'' (1958) was described by the journal ''Canadian Public Administration'' as "an excellent primer on the Australian Federal Public Service".<ref>((cite journal |title=Review of 'The Commonwealth Public Service' |journal=Canadian Public Administration |volume=2 |number=4 |page=255))</ref>

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