David Blair (4 June 1820 – 19 February 1899) was an Irish Australian politician, journalist and encyclopedist.
[citation needed] He later studied for the ministry in Ireland[1] and came to Australia in 1850 at the suggestion of John Dunmore Lang, the intention being that he should go into the back country as a missionary.
[3] Blair was elected a member of the legislative assembly of Victoria in 1856 and again in 1868, but did not make any special mark in politics.
[4] Their daughter Florence Baverstock has been noted as a fine writer,[5] having on occasion contributed articles for her father when he was indisposed.
In September 1896 she replaced the dangerously ill Ina Wildman ("Sappho Smith") as editor of The Bulletin's Women's pages.