Dictionary of Indian Biography/Adam, William Patrick
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ADAM, WILLIAM PATRICK (1823–1881)
Governor: son of Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.B.: born 1823: educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge: B.A.: called to the bar by the Inner Temple, 1849: Private Secretary to Lord Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay, 1853–58: M.P. for Clackmannan and Kinross, 1859–80: Lord of the Treasury, 1865–6, and 1868–73: First Commissioner of Works in 1873, and Privy Councillor: 'Whip' of the Liberal party, 1874–80, and Governor of Madras, Dec. 20, 1880: died at Ootacamund May 24, 1881: his eldest son was created a Baronet in recognition of his father's public services: his widow was given the rank of a Baronet's widow and made a member of the Order of the Crown of India.