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

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 17 Aug. 1844 to death; author of _A treatise on the principles and practice of the action of Ejectment and the remitting action of mesne profits 1812_, _4 ed._ 1846. (_m._ (1) 1811 Eliza only dau. of Wm. Nation of Exeter, she _d._ 12 Aug.