Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

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