William Blair (judge) William Blair (judge) Sir William James Lynton Blair (born 31 March 1950) is a retired British judge. He was previously a Queen's Counsel, specialising in domestic and international banking and finance law. He is the elder brother of former British prime minister Tony Blair. Blair was born in Scotland to Leo Charles Lynton Blair, a barrister and later a lecturer in law, and Hazel Corscadden. Like his brother Tony, the future Prime Minister, he was educated at the independent Choristers School in Durham and Fettes College in Edinburgh, before studying Jurisprudence (Law) at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1971 with
Tony Blair Star", he was portrayed by Christian Brassington. When Blair resigned as Prime Minister, Robert Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write "The Ghost". The CIA-influenced British prime minister in the book is said to be a thinly disguised version of Blair. The novel was filmed as "The Ghost Writer" with Pierce Brosnan portraying the Blair character, Adam Lang. Stephen Mangan portrays Blair in "The Hunt for Tony Blair" (2011), a one-off "The Comic Strip Presents..." satire presented in the style of a 1950s film noir. In the film, he is wrongly implicated in the