Euan Blair

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Euan Blair
Born	Euan Anthony Blair 19 January 1984 (1984-01-19) (age 26) England
Alma mater	University of Bristol
Parents	Tony Blair Cherie Blair
Relatives	Tony Booth (maternal grandfather) Leo Blair (paternal grandfather)

Euan Anthony Blair (born 19 January 1984, London), is the eldest son of Cherie Blair and Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister. He has been subject to attention by the British media through coverage of stories that have broken, announcements from 10 Downing Street, and by appearing with his parents especially during election campaigns.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Education 3 Media coverage 4 Personal life 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Early life

Blair was born on 19 January 1984 and named Euan after two people: Euan Uglow and a school friend of Tony Blair.^[1]

[edit] Education

Blair was educated at St. Joan of Arc Roman Catholic primary school^[2] and the London Oratory School, a highly regarded Roman Catholic grant-aided school in Fulham. At the Oratory he was appointed one of the four deputy head pupils for his final year at the school.^[3][4] To supplement his education at the Oratory, private tutors from Westminster School were hired to instruct Blair in A-level history and other subjects whilst at home in the family's flat in Downing Street.^[5]

Blair graduated with a B.A. in Ancient History from the University of Bristol in 2005, having attained a 2:1 (upper second class) honours degree.^[6][7]

Blair spent three months as an unpaid intern with Republican David Dreier and Republican Party staff of the Rules Committee of the United States House of Representatives.^[8] He then crossed the aisle to spend time working in the office of "Blue Dog" Democrat Jane Harman. Blair cut short his internship with Harman in May 2006 after just a fortnight; a statement from Harman's office cited Blair's graduate school plans,^[9] and offers from Harvard's Kennedy School and Yale.^[10]

In early 2006, Blair found two weeks of work experience with the London public relations company Finsbury Limited.^[11][12] In 2008, Blair graduated from Yale University's MacMillan Center with an M.A. in International Relations. He accepted this place after being awarded a £50,000 ($100,000) scholarship based on merit, although there was some surprise at this award.^[13][14][15]

[edit] Media coverage

Because of his father's position, Blair has been subject to the attention of the British media. This is partly through coverage of stories that have broken, but it is also because of his appearance with his parents in photo shoots (together with siblings Nicky, Kathryn, and Leo), especially during general election campaigns.

When the Millennium Dome was in the planning stages, the Prime Minister volunteered the fact that the Dome must pass the "Euan test" and satisfy what his 13-year-old would want on a day out.^[16]

The incident for which Blair first attracted significant attention in his own right was in 2000 when, aged 16, he was found by police, incapable of walking in Leicester Square, having spent the night with friends celebrating the completion of his GCSE exams. At Charing Cross police station he later gave a false name, an old address, and a false date of birth that would have made him 18 (the legal age to purchase alcohol in the United Kingdom).^[17] This leaked to the press and caused considerable embarrassment to Tony Blair, who had recently introduced measures to deal with young offenders. Regarding a potential prosecution, he told the BBC's Question Time that his son should not receive special preferences.^[18] In the end, Euan apologised for the incident, and was neither prosecuted nor formally cautioned.^[17][18]

In 2001 The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph both revealed that Blair was applying to Trinity College, Oxford. His parents made a formal complaint to the Press Complaints Commission that these reports represented an intrusion, and the complaint was upheld. Blair failed to meet the specified A-level grades that were part of the conditional offer, so he took a place at Bristol University instead.^[19]

Also in 2001, the BBC reported that Blair and another teenage friend fought off a gang of eight to ten youths who were demanding property from them. The muggers left empty-handed.^[20]

In 2002, a scandal erupted over Blair's mother, Cherie Booth's use of a known fraudster to negotiate the acquisition of two flats for him and his guards to live whilst at university in Bristol.^[21][22][23]

In 2006, it was reported in The Sunday Times that Blair had worked as a runner for the film V for Vendetta when it was filmed around the Palace of Westminster in the Summer of 2005.^[24] Both Conservative MP David Davies and Private Eye suggested that Blair's involvement was contributory to filming access being allowed.^[25] However, Nick Daubeny, the location manager for the film, denied that Blair's involvement had helped in any way, saying that Blair had been offered the job after they had worked together as part of the filming of Band of Brothers in 2001.

[edit] Personal life

Blair was baptised and brought up as Roman Catholic.^[26][27]

In 2003 Blair was hospitalised in Sharm-el-Sheikh on New Year's Eve after complaining of acute stomach pains.^[28] Then in August 2006, Downing Street reported that Blair had been admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, near Bridgetown, Barbados, where he had received treatment for a stomach complaint, which was not serious and did not need an operation. He had been on a three-week holiday in Barbados.^[29] On 30 September 2006, after Blair had started his course at Yale University, he was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital as an emergency owing to abdominal pains and had an Appendicectomy operation confirmed by a Downing Street announcement.^[28] Treating this as a family emergency, his mother made a two-day visit to the USA and arrived to see him in hospital on 2 October 2009 to help ensure that her son would be all right.^[28] Abdominal pains can be difficult to diagnose, and his parents were very happy with the all the health care that their son had received.^[28]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Euan Blair at the Internet Movie Database

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Persondata
NAME	Blair, Euan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blair, Euan Anthony
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Media interest. The eldest son of British Prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH	1984-1-19
PLACE OF BIRTH	England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH