Early Life
Gair was born in Rockhampton to a Scottish father and an Irish mother, and was raised a Catholic. His parents were founding members of the Labor Party in Queensland in the 1890s. He began work with the Department of Railways upon the family's move to Dutton Park, Brisbane and in 1916 he joined the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He married Florence Glynn in 1924. She died in an accident five years later.
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