NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Adam, William, 1751-1839 NRA: Adam, William (1751-1839) Politician Attorney General to Prince of Wales DNB: Adam, William (1751-1839), politician and advocate LBT ID: WiAdam1839 VIAF ID: 45713784 LOC ID: n84204443 | B/BAP: 1751-08-02 DIED: 1839-02-17 |
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Scottish barrister, Whig MP (1784-1812) and ally of Charles James Fox (whom he once
wounded in a duel); he was privy councillor (1815) and a friend of Sir Walter Scott. | |
REFERENCES TO William Adam: Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Thomas Creevey, [November 1805?] in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 Sydney Smith to John Allen, 18 December 1809 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1:
¶ 1 Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, 8 March 1815 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 Henry Grey Bennet to Thomas Creevey, 3 April 1815 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, [May] 1816 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 Walter Scott to Adam Ferguson, 16 April 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 2 Walter Scott to Adam Ferguson, 13 May 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Samuel Rogers, 10 June 1821 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
¶ 4 Sir Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 11 June 1821 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., [February? 1822] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 1 Sir Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 23 June 1822 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 4 Sir Walter Scott to Jane Scott, 20 March 1825 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 5 Sir Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., 16 June 1825 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.;
with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XI. 1816-1820 Found 1:
¶ 8 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1815 Found 1:
¶ 9 Chapter VII 1818-19 Found 1:
¶ 13 Chapter X 1823 Found 1:
¶ 8 Chapter V 1826 Found 1:
¶ 32 Chapter VII 1826 Found 1:
¶ 30 Chapter XII Found 1:
¶ 60 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VI. 1794-1796 Found 1:
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