Template:Did you know nominations/John Blair, Sr.
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 17:38, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
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John Blair, Sr.
[edit]- ... that John Blair, who had served four times as acting governor of the Colony of Virginia, resigned his life appointment in 1770 so he would not be acting governor a fifth time? Source: "When Botetourt died on October 15, 1770, Blair would have become acting governor a fifth time, but because of his old age and ill health he resigned from the Council that day." ([1])
Created by MB (talk). Self-nominated at 04:39, 12 March 2017 (UTC).
Thank you for many details about his career and personal life, ending gardening ;) - I like the interesting hook. Generally: sources are good, no copyvio obvious. I inserted a few commas, but didn't know where to put some to clarify this: "Son Dr. James Blair married in 1771 and shortly thereafter separated before dying in 1772 leading to a lawsuit between his estate and wife (Blair v Blair) involving John Blair, Jr. as executor and Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Randolph as council in the matter some considered a scandal." Perhaps split? - Many paragraphs have just one sentence, - can you merge them to before or after? - Perhaps also avoid too many sentences beginning with "he" in a row? - In "They had ten or at least twelve children", I'd expect the "at least" with the ten ;) - Also waiting for a review. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:40, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt, I've completed a QPC review and did some editing based on your comments. As far as the number of children, one source said "ten" and another said "at least twelve". So I wrote it that way with a citation for each number. Merging them as "ten or more" wouldn't match either source and would be discounting the source that said "at least twelve". MB 02:43, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
thank you for the changes. Please still do something about "10 or at least 12", the headshaking starts there, while the source is given only after the number daughters. You you at least double the ref to right behind the twelve. Another option would be: "ten, or according to ..., "at least ...". --
