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.