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date: 12 December 2019

Adam, Sir Charleslocked

(1780–1853)
  • J. K. Laughton
  • , revised by Andrew Lambert

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Adam, Sir Charles (1780–1853), naval officer, was the second son of William Adam (1751–1839), of Blairadam, Kinross, and of Eleanora (1749–1808), daughter of the tenth Lord Elphinstone, and sister of Captain Elphinstone, afterwards Admiral Lord Keith. John Adam (1779–1825), administrator, and Frederick William Adam...

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Gentleman's Magazine
British Library, London
W. R. O'Byrne, (1849); repr. (1990); [2nd edn], 2 vols. (1861)
National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Portrait Gallery, London
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