Tomb inscription · 1881
William Patrick Adam
- Date
- 24 May 1881
- Place
- Sttomas
- Plot
- Serial 2293
- Inscription
- In memory of the Right Honorable William Patrick Adam of Blair Adam, N.B., Governor of the Presidency of Fort St. George, died at Ootacamund, May 24th, 1881, aged 57 years. Erected by order of Government.
- Notes
- A handsome obelisk of Aberdeen granite. At Charing Cross, Ootacamund, is a public fountain to his memory. He was the son of Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.B., M.P., Naval Lord of the Admiralty, and was born on September 14th, 1823. His grandfather was the Right Hon. William Adam, M.P., 1774-1794, one of the Managers of Warren Hastings' impeachment and afterwards a Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland. One of his uncles John Adam acted as Governor-General of India from January to August 1823 and died at sea in 1825. Another uncle, General Sir Frederick Adam, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., who commanded Adam's Brigade at Waterloo, was Governor of Madras from 1832 to 1837 (see No. 471). On June 23, 1820 at Corfu Major-Genl. Sir Frederick Adam married Signora Diamantina Pallatiano. Mr. W. P. Adam was Private Secretary from 1853-1858 to his relative Lord Elphinstone, when Governor of Bombay, and sat as M.P. for Clackmannan and Kinross, 1859 to 1880. From 1874-80, he was Chief Liberal Whip. He was first Commissioner of Works from 1873-74 and again in 1880, both under the premiership of Mr. Gladstone. On December 20th, 1880, he was appointed Governor of Madras. He married in 1856 Emily, the daughter of General Sir William Wyllie, G.C.B., and their eldest son Charles Elphinstone was, on May 20th, 1882, created a baronet.