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ADAM, WILLIAM (1751-1839)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 174 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ADAM, WILLIAM (1751-1839) , British lawyer and politician, eldest son of John
Adam
  of Blair-
Adam
 , Kinross-shire, and nephew of the architect noticed above, was born on the and of August 1751, studied at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and passed at the Scottish bar in 2773. Soon after-wards he removed to England, where he entered
parliament
  in 1774, and in 1782 was called to the common law bar. He withdrew from
parliament
  in 1795, entered it again in 1806 as representative of the united counties of Clackmannan and Kinross, and continued a member, with some interruptions, till 1811. He was a Whig and a supporter of the policy of Fox. At the English bar he obtained a very considerable practice. He was successively attorney and solicitor-general to the prince of Wales, one of the managers of the
impeachment
  of Warren Hastings, and one of the counsel who defended the first Lord
Melville
  when impeached. During his party's brief
tenure
  of office in 1806 he was chancellor of the duchy of
Cornwall
 , and
was afterwards a privy councillor and lord-lieutenant of Kinross-shire. In 1814 he became a baron of Exchequer in
Scotland
 , and was
chief
 
commissioner
  of the newly established jury-court for the trial of civil causes, from 1815 to 183o, when it was merged in the permanent supreme tribunal. He died at Edinburgh on the 17th of February 1839.


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