John Loudon McAadam

(1756-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: McAdam, John Loudon, 1756-1836 NRA: McAdam John Loudon (1756-1836) Engineer DNB: McAdam, John Loudon (1756–1836), builder and administrator of roads LBT ID: JoMcAda1836 VIAF ID: 15548384 LOC ID: n84218224	B/BAP: 1756-09-21 DIED: 1836-11-26
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Born in Ayr, he was a builder of roads and turnpikes in England; the “macadamized” or paved road is named for him.
REFERENCES TO John Loudon McAadam: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Charles Lamb, [March? 1825] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 James Hamilton Browne, “Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 35 (September 1834) 392-407 Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1825 Found 1: ¶ 4