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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Adair, Robert, Sir, 1763-1855 NRA: Adair, Sir Robert (1763-1855) Knight, MP and diplomat DNB: Adair, Sir Robert (1763-1855), politician and diplomatist LBT ID: RoAdair1855 VIAF ID: 66838158 LOC ID: n84204418 | B/BAP: 1763-05-24 DIED: 1855-10-03 |
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English diplomat; he was Whig MP for Appleby (1799-1802) and Camelford (1802-12), a
friend and disciple of Charles James Fox, and ambassador to Constantinople, 1809-10. He was
ridiculed by Canning and Ellis in The Rovers. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Sir Robert Adair: Sir Robert Adair to Lady Melbourne, 27 September 1802 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Sir Robert Adair to Lady Melbourne, 2 October 1802 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) | |
