To be sure he was-didn't get along with Blair.
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
On the seventh day after Raphael Poe's arrival in Moscow, the other four men met in Blair House, across the street from the White House, in a room especially prepared for the purpose.
"The Foreign Hand Tie"
Gordon Randall Garrett
Blair, like Thomson, living in Scotland, was outside the Pope circle of wit, and had studied the old English authors instead of Pope and Dryden.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen