Ernest Hartley Mair (15 January 1891 – 12 January 1957) was an Australian rugby league administrator and hotelier, who coached the New Zealand side on their 1926-27 tour of Great Britain.
Ernest Mair was born on 15 January 1891 to a Scottish father and English mother in Ipswich.
At a meeting with English Rugby League authorities in on 8 November, following further disturbances which almost led to the tour party being evicted from their Harrogate hotel, it was decided that Mair would withdraw from team selection and match tactics for a period of a month.
[6] The tour, and the costly disputes, continued with the rebels eventually setting sail for home a week earlier than their colleagues.
Three months later all seven players (Arthur Singe, Neil Mouat, John Herbert James Wright, Alphonsus Carroll, Bill Devine, Lou Petersen and Frank Henry) were banned for life by the New Zealand Rugby League.