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