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WILLIAM ADAM (1751-1839)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 174 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:ADAM (1751-1839)  , See also:British lawyer and politician, eldest son of See also:John See also:Adam of See also:Blair-Adam, Kinross-See also:shire, and See also:nephew of the architect noticed above, was See also:born on the and of See also:August 1751, studied at the See also:universities of See also:Edinburgh and See also:Glasgow, and passed at the Scottish See also:bar in 2773 . Soon after-wards he removed to See also:England, where he entered See also:parliament in 1774, and in 1782 was called to the See also:common See also:law bar . He withdrew from parliament in 1795, entered it again in 1806 as representative of the See also:united counties of See also:Clackmannan and Kinross, and continued a member, with some interruptions, till 1811 . He was a Whig and a supporter of the policy of See also:Fox . At the See also:English bar he obtained a very considerable practice . He was successively See also:attorney and See also:solicitor-See also:general to the See also:prince of See also:Wales, one of the managers of the See also:impeachment of See also:Warren See also:Hastings, and one of the counsel who defended the first See also:Lord See also:Melville when impeached . During his party's brief See also:tenure of See also:office in 1806 he was See also:chancellor of the duchy of See also:Cornwall, and was afterwards a privy councillor and lord-See also:lieutenant of Kinross-shire . In 1814 he became a See also:baron of See also:Exchequer in See also:Scotland, and was See also:chief See also:commissioner of the newly established See also:jury-See also:court for the trial of See also:civil causes, from 1815 to 183o, when it was merged in the permanent supreme tribunal . He died at Edinburgh on the 17th of See also:February 1839 .

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