15 SEPTEMBER 2007, Page 18

We knew him as Emily

Sir: I read with interest the meeting between Mary Wakefield and Clarissa Dickson Wright (A pin-up for Scottish pensioners', 8 September) and was touched by her appeal to Spectator readers who might know more about the 'Miranda' legend.

Alas, I was not at the Bar with Mr Blair, so cannot vouch for the truth concerning his nickname and the reason behind it. However, I was at Fettes at about the same time as one Tony Blair, albeit a few years older than him I can remember him as a rather obsequious junior and even then, in the midto late Sixties, he had acquired a similar nickname to the one that was to be bestowed upon him at the Bar. His Fettes nickname was Emily.

Cameron Lees Stirling