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. 1814. _m._ (2) 1817 Jane dau. of Thomas Martin of Nottingham, she _d._ 19 June 1825. _m._ (3) 28 Dec. 1826 his cousin Charlotte Priscilla only dau. of John Coker of Bicester, Oxon). _d._ 9 Hyde park st. London 10 Jany. 1856 in his 70th year. NOTE.—He had two sons by his 1 wife, namely John Adams, author of the Doctrine of equity who _d._ 18 Sep. 1848, and Rev, Wm. Adams, author of the Shadow of the cross who _d._ 17 Jan. 1848. ADAMS, JOHN, apprenticed to J. G. Andrews of London, surgeon; studied at the London hospital, M.R.C.S. 3 Oct. 1828, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1843; assistant surgeon London hospital 1828; and lecturer there with James Luke on anatomy and physiology 1833; afterwards sole lecturer; senior surgeon, and ultimately consulting surgeon; known as “honest Jack Adams”; author of _The anatomy and diseases of the prostate gland_ 1851. _d._ 2 Vanbrugh park road west, Blackheath 18 Jany. 1877 in his 72nd year.