ADEY, REVEREND JOHN. _b._ Painswick, Gloucs. 15 May 1793; in business at Winslow, Bucks; began first voluntary Sunday school in Gloucester; founded a Sunday school at Great Horwood; ordained congregational minister there 1820; moved to Cranbrook, Kent then to Ramsgate; minister at Horselydown, Surrey 1836–58; at Bexley Heath, Kent 1858–68 when he retired; author of _The eleventh hour_ 1835; _The convert from popery_ 1851. _d._ Bexley Heath 16 Dec. 1869. _bur._ Abney Park cemetery. ADIE, ALEXANDER JAMES. _b._ Edinburgh 1775; an optician there; much employed by all kinds of inventors to give their schemes a practical form; erected on his house in Merchant court an observatory, long before any public observatory existed in Edin.; invented the sympiesometer 1818 which contributed much to the safety of shipping; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Canaan near Edinburgh 4 Dec. 1858. ADIE, ALEXANDER JAMES (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Edinburgh 1808; ed. at the high school and univ.; apprenticed to James Jardine, C.E.; resident engineer of Bolton Chorley and Preston railway 1836; engineer and manager of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway to about 1863; made a series of important experiments on the expansion of stone by heat; M.R.S. Edin. 1846. _d._ Rockville near Linlithgow 1879. ADOLPHUS, JOHN LEYCESTER (_only son of John Adolphus 1768–1845, barrister, F.S.A., by Martha Elizabeth only dau. of Rev. Ralph Leycester of White place, Berks_). _b._ 11 May 1795; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1802–11, head monitor, elected to fellowship at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1811; Newdigate English verse prizeman 1814; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; visited Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford; barrister Inner Temple 21 June 1822; went northern circuit; Bencher of his inn 1851; reported in Court of King’s Bench, first with Richard Vaughan Barnewall 1831–35, then with Thomas Flower Ellis 1835–52; solicitor general of county palatine of Durham; judge of county courts circuit 44 Marylebone, Oct. 1852 to death; sat for the first time 14 Oct. 1852; author of _Letters to Richard Heber, Esq., containing critical remarks on the series of novels, beginning with “Waverley,” and an attempt to ascertain their author_; author with Richard Vaughan Barnewall, of _Reports in court of King’s Bench 1830–34, 5 vols._ 1831–35; with Thomas Flower Ellis, of _Reports in court of King’s Bench and Queen’s Bench 1834–41, 12 vols._ 1835–42 and _Queen’s Bench reports, new series 1841–52, 18 vols._, 1842–56; _Letters from Spain_ 1858, _and of many metrical jeux d’esprit_. (_m._ 10 Sep. 1822 Clara dau. of Rowland Richardson of Streatham, Surrey). _d._ 12 Hyde park sq. London 24 Dec. 1862. _G.M. xiv_, 246 (1863).