ACTON, WILLIAM, _b._ Shillingstone rectory 15 Sep. 1814; placed under care of Dr. Mant in London 1830; articled pupil of Charles Wheeler, (Apothecary to St. Bartholomew’s hospital) 1830–35; Externe at female venereal hospital Paris; Secretary of the Parisian medical society 1839; returned to London Oct. 1840; M.R.C.S. June 1840; practised in George st. Hanover square 1840–43; removed to 46 Queen Anne st. Cavendish square March 1843; surgeon to Islington dispensary; author of _A practical treatise on diseases of the urinary and generative organs_ 1841, _3 ed._ 1860; _Prostitution considered in its moral, social and sanitary aspects in London and other large cities_ 1857, _2 ed._ 1870. _d._ 17 Harley st. London 7 Dec. 1875. _Medical Circular i_, 11–12 (1852). ADAIR, SIR ROBERT (_son of Robert Adair, sergeant surgeon to George III, who d. 16 March 1790, by Caroline Keppel, 1737–69 elder dau. of Wm. Anne 3 Earl of Albemarle_). _b._ London 24 May 1763; ed. at Westminster and Univ. of Gottingen; called to the bar at L.I. 27 April 1785; M.P. Appleby, (whig) 18 June 1799–29 June 1802, for Camelford 7 July 1802–29 Sep. 1812; minister to court of Vienna 7 May 1806–14 May 1807; minister to Constantinople 5 July 1808, and ambassador 14 April 1809; sent on a special mission to the Low Countries 1831–35; P.C. 23 July 1828; G.C.B. 3 Aug. 1831 for negotiating peace between Great Britain and Ottoman Porte in 1809; author of _Historical memoir of a mission to court of Vienna in 1806 with a selection from despatches_, 1844; _The negotiations for the peace of the Dardanelles in 1808–1809_, _2 vols._ 1845. (_m._ 1805 Angélique Gabrielle dau. of Marquess d’Hazincourt). _d._ 11 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 3 Oct. 1855. _G.M., xliv_, 535 (1855); _Lord John Russell’s Memorials of C. J. Fox, vol. ii, appendix_. NOTE.—At his death he was the senior knight of the order of the Bath, and the last survivor of those who were knights before its enlargement in 1814. 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.