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ADAM, WILLIAM (1751-1839) , British lawyer and politician, eldest son of John Adam
Adam
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
Melville
tenure of office in 1806 he was chancellor of the duchy of Cornwall
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
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