ADAIR, Sir Robert Shafto, 1 Baronet (eld. son of W. Adair of Ballymena, co. Antrim 1754–1844, by Camilla dau. of Robert Shafto of Benwell, Northumberland, she d. 18 Nov. 1787). b. 26 June 1786; created Baronet 2 Aug. 1838; sheriff of Suffolk 1846; F.S.A. 16 May 1861. (m. (1) 17 Sep. 1810 Elizabeth Maria dau. of Rev. James Strode of Berkhampstead, Herts, she d. 1 Sep. 1853. m. (2) 3 Oct. 1854 Jane Anne eld dau. of Rev. Townley Clarkson, V. of Hinxton, Cambs, she d. 18 March 1873). d. Flixton hall, Suffolk 24 Feb. 1869.
ADAM, Sir Charles (eld. son of Wm. Adam 1751–1839, lord chief comr. of jury court of Scotland by Eleanora Elphinstone 1749–1800 2 dau. of Charles, 10 baron Elphinstone). b. Brighton 6 Oct. 1780; entered navy 15 Dec. 1790; captain 12 June 1799; captain of Invincible, 74 guns 1811–1813; of Royal Sovereign yacht 15 Dec. 1814–7 Feb. 1816, and 20 July 1821–27 May 1825; R.A. 27 May 1825, V.A. 10 Jany. 1837; commander in chief, North America and West Indies 17 Aug. 1841–May 1845, when placed on half pay; admiral 8 June 1848; M.P. Kinrossshire (lib.) 20 May 1831–3 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Clackmannan and Kinross 24 Dec. 1832–23 June 1841; Lord Lieut. of Kinross 1 April 1839 to death; 1st naval Lord of Admiralty 25 April 1835–8 Sep. 1841, and 24 July 1846–20 July 1847; one of elder brethren of Trinity House 1839–41; Governor of Greenwich hospital 10 July 1847 to death; K.C.B. 10 Aug. 1835. (m. 4 Oct. 1822 Elizabeth dau. of Patrick Brydone of Lennell, F.R.S., she d. 1871). d. Greenwich hospital 16 Sep. 1853, bur. there 21 Sep.
ADAM, Sir Frederick (younger son of above named Wm. Adam 1751–1839). b. 1781; ed. at Woolwich; ensign 26 foot 4 Nov. 1795; lieut. col. 5 garrison battalion Aug. 1804 to 5 Jany 1805; lieut. col. 21 foot 5 Jany 1805 to 4 June 1814; served in Sicily 1806–11; Aide de camp to Prince Regent 8 Feb. 1811; commanded a brigade in Spain 1813; the third British brigade at Waterloo 1815; and a division at Malta 1817–22; K.C.B. 22 June 1815; G.C.B. 20 June 1840; G.C.M.G. 27 Dec. 1821; invested at Corfu 15 Jany. 1822; grand master; lord high commissioner of Ionian islands 7 April 1824–8 Sep. 1832; P.C. 29 June 1831; governor of Madras 25 Oct. 1832–4 March 1837. (m. (1) at Corfu 23 June 1820 Diamantino Pallatiano, she d. at Rome 1 June 1844. m. (2) at Kensington 24 July 1851, Ann Lindsay dau. of John Maberly). d. at Greenwich railway station 17 Aug. 1853. Siborne’s War in France and Belgium 1848; Napier’s Peninsular War, book xx, chapter 4 and book xxi, chapter 2.
ADAM, James, b. Paisley 1809; worked at the loom; went to London 1834; edited the Aberdeen Herald 1834 to death; author of The knowledge qualification: a plan for the reciprocal extension of education and the franchise 1837. d. Old Aberdeen 10 Nov. 1862.
ADAM, William Patrick (elder son of Admiral Sir Charles Adam, Governor of Greenwich Hospital). b. 14 Sep. 1823; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846; called to bar at Inner Temple 4 May 1849; went home circuit; Sec. to Baron Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay Dec. 1853–Sep. 1858; M.P. for Clackmannanshire and Kinrossshire (lib.) 2 May 1859–Oct. 1880; a Lord of the Treasury April 1865–July 1866, and Dec. 1868–Aug. 1873; first Commissioner of Works and Buildings, and Paymaster General 11 Aug. 1873–Feb. 1874, and April 1880–Nov. 1880; P.C. 9 Aug. 1873; governor of Madras 11 Oct. 1880 to death; whip of liberal party April 1874–April 1880; left for India 27 Nov. 1880. (m. 23 Feb. 1856 Emily Eliza dau. of Sir Wm. Wyllie, K.C.B., she was raised to rank of a baronet’s wife 22 May 1882). d. Ootacamund, Madras 24 May 1881. bur. there 26 May. Fraser’s Mag. civ, 113–22 (1881); Graphic xxiii, 589 (1881) pt.; I.L.N. lxxvii, 564 (1880) pt.
ADAMS, Alexander Maxwell, L.R.C.S. Edin. 1835, F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1840; M.D. King’s college Aberdeen 1849; professor of Institutes of medicine in Anderson’s university Glasgow; senior surgeon Lock hospital Glasgow; went to Lanark about 1852; provost of Lanark 1860 to death; author of Essay on Scarlet Fever. d. Bloomgate st. Lanark 24 July 1867 aged 50.
ADAMS, Andrew Leith (2 son of Francis Adams of Belfield house, Banchory, co. Aberdeen). Assistant surgeon 64 foot 22 Dec. 1848; surgeon major 20 Oct. 1868–23 Jany. 1875, when he retired with honorary rank of deputy surgeon general; professor of zoology, Royal college of science, Dublin 1873–78; professor of natural history, Queen’s college, Cork, Nov. 1878 to death; F.G.S. 1870, LLD. Aberdeen 1871, F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of Wanderings of a naturalist 1867; Notes of a Naturalist 1870. (m. 26 Oct. 1859 Bertha Jane, eld. dau. of Frederick Grundy of The Avenue, Hardwick). d. Queenstown 29 July 1882.
ADAMS, Arthur. Assistant surgeon R.N. 13 Oct. 1841; surgeon 14 April 1853; employed in the Actæon on surveying service, on coast of China and Tartary, Aug. 1856; fleet surgeon 27 May 1865; retired 27 July 1871; M.R.C.S. 1848; author of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang 1850; Travels of a naturalist in Japan and Manchuria 1870. d. Stoke villa, Honor Oak Kent 16 Oct. 1878 aged 58.
ADAMS, Arthur Robarts (fourth son of Henry Cadwallader Adams of Anstey Hall, Warwickshire 1779–1842 by Emma eld. dau. of Sir Wm. Curtis, Lord mayor of London, 1st Bart., she d. 22 June 1857 aged 76). b. 16 Aug. 1812; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1822–30, and at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1830–35; B.C.L. 1835, D.C.L. 1840; Fell. of his coll. 1835 to death; called to bar at Mid. Temple 11 Jan. 1839; went Midland circuit; Recorder of Birmingham 20 Jan. 1866 to death; Q.C. 22 June 1869, Bencher of his Inn 27 Jan. 1870; Assessor of Chancellor’s court, Oxford, Nov. 1871–1876. d. suddenly while out shooting in Bagley Wood near Oxford 13 Dec. 1877. bur. Anstey near Coventry 20 Dec. 1877.
ADAMS, Edward Moore. Practised as a surgeon; Sec. to proprietors of Cremorne gardens, London for 30 years before 5 Oct. 1877, when they closed; d. Bristol 2 June 1881 in 78 year. bur. Arno’s Vale cemetery 6 June.
ADAMS, Frances Matilda. Exhibited pictures of flowers at the Royal Academy from 1816; water colour painter extraordinary to Queen Adelaide. d. 24 Oct. 1863 aged 79.
ADAMS, Francis, b. Lumphanan, co. Aberdeen 13 March 1796; ed. at Aberdeen; M.R.C.S. 1 Dec. 1815; practised at Banchory-Ternan 1816 to death; translated Paulus Ægineta, 3 vols. 1844–47, being the only English translation; Hippocrates 2 vols. 1849, and Aretæus 1856; author of Arundines Devœ, or poetical translations on a new principle 1853. d. Banchory-Ternan 26 Feb. 1861. Scotsman 27 Feb. and 9 March 1861.
ADAMS, Frank. b. 1809; ensign 28 foot 30 Dec. 1826; lieut. col. 28 foot 16 July 1852–4 March 1866; commanded Mhow division of Bombay army 9 Jan. 1866–1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. at sea, on board the Tanjore, on his way home from India 19 Sep. 1869.
ADAMS, George, physician general Madras army 6 Feb. 1841–31 Jan. 1846. d. 148 New Bond st. London 11 July 1852.
ADAMS, Sir George Pownoll (younger son of Wm. Adams 1752–1811, of Bowdon near Totnes, Devon, M.P. for Totnes, by Anna Maria dau. of Richard Dacres of Leatherhead, Surrey, she d. Bowdon 19 April 1830). b. Bowdon 1778; Cornet 2nd dragoon guards 5 Oct. 1795; lieut. col. 25th dragoons 8 Dec. 1804–25 Dec. 1818; commanded the troops at Bangalore 1810–1814; Colonel of 6th dragoons 26 Oct. 1840 to death; General 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.H. 1831; knighted by the king at St. James’s palace 28 Sep. 1831. (m. (1) at Totnes, Devon 28 Nov. 1804 Elizabeth Lovelace. m. (2) 23 July 1821 Elizabeth 2 dau. of Sir Wm. Elford, Bart., she d. 28 Feb. 1857). d. Temple hill, East Budleigh, Devon 10 June 1856.
ADAMS, Henry William b. 31 Jan. 1805; ensign 12th foot 31 July 1823; Lieut. col. 18th foot 13 March 1840–12 April 1844; Lieut. col. 49th foot 12 April 1844 to death; Brigadier general 21 Feb. 1854 to death; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841. (m. 28 Nov. 1843 his cousin Katherine 2 dau. of Rev. Thomas Coker Adams, V. of Anstey, Warwickshire, she was raised by royal warrant to the rank of the wife of a K.C.B. for which honour her husband was named in the London gazette 10 July 1855). d. Scutari 19 Dec. 1854.
ADAMS, John (3 and youngest son of Simon Adams of East Haddon, Northamptonshire, Recorder of Daventry who d. 10 March 1801, by Sarah dau. of Cadwallader Coker of Bicester, she d. 17 July 1833 aged 80). b. 1786; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1812; went the Midland circuit; Sergeant at law 5 July 1824, patent of precedence 24 April 1834; J.P. 14 Jan. 1836, steward of Coventry; Chairman of Middlesex magistrates March 1836; Assistant judge of Middlesex sessions