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Robert Adair (politician), Robert Adair
Robert Adair may refer to: * Robert Adair (of Hollybrook) (died 1737), Irish MP for Philipstown (Parliament of Ireland constituency) and protagonist in one version of the song " Robin Adair" * Robert Adair (surgeon) (died 1790), English surgeon, Inspector-General of the Hospitals and surgeon of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, father of Robert Adair (politician) * Sir Robert Adair (politician) (1763–1855), British diplomat, son of the surgeon * Robert Adair, 1st Baron Waveney (1811–1886), English politician, MP for Cambridge 1847–1852 and 1854–1857 * Robert Adair (cricketer) (1876–1951), Irish cricketer * Robert Adair (actor) (1900–1954), American actor * Robert Adair (physicist) Robert Kemp Adair (August 14, 1924 – September 28, 2020) was an American physicist. He latterly held the position of Sterling Professor Emeritus of physics at Yale University. Biography Adair served in the European theatre after volunteeri ... (1924–2020), American physicist See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Adair (of Hollybrook)
Robert Adair may refer to: * Robert Adair (of Hollybrook) (died 1737), Irish MP for Philipstown (Parliament of Ireland constituency) and protagonist in one version of the song " Robin Adair" * Robert Adair (surgeon) (died 1790), English surgeon, Inspector-General of the Hospitals and surgeon of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, father of Robert Adair (politician) * Sir Robert Adair (politician) (1763–1855), British diplomat, son of the surgeon * Robert Adair, 1st Baron Waveney (1811–1886), English politician, MP for Cambridge 1847–1852 and 1854–1857 * Robert Adair (cricketer) (1876–1951), Irish cricketer * Robert Adair (actor) (1900–1954), American actor * Robert Adair (physicist) Robert Kemp Adair (August 14, 1924 – September 28, 2020) was an American physicist. He latterly held the position of Sterling Professor Emeritus of physics at Yale University. Biography Adair served in the European theatre after volunteeri ... (1924–2020), American physicist See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipstown (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Philipstown in King's County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. The town was later renamed Daingean Daingean (; or ), formerly Philipstown, named after King Philip II of Spain, is a small town in east County Offaly, Ireland. It is situated midway between the towns of Tullamore and Edenderry on the R402 regional road. The town of Daingean ... in 1922. Members of Parliament References * {{coord missing, County Offaly Historic constituencies in County Offaly Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) 1800 disestablishments in Ireland Constituencies disestablished in 1800 Daingean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Adair
"Robin Adair" is a traditional Irish (sometimes identified as Scottish) song with lyrics written by Lady Caroline Keppel. It was popular in the 18th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 8918. The song was mentioned by Jane Austen in her 1815 novel '' Emma''; the character Jane Fairfax played it on the piano. The song is also mentioned in Chapter IX of MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Andersonville" (1955). Background Robert "Robin" Adair was a real person: a surgeon-colonel in the British army, who declined a baronetcy, he was born in Dublin around 1714 and died in 1790. Lady Caroline Keppel (c. 1734–1769), the elder of the two daughters of Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, married Adair, despite the fact that her family disapproved of the match because of his lower status. Lady Caroline wrote the song bearing her husband's name during the 1750s as a rebuke to her family for what she perceived as their snobbery regarding her handsom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Adair (surgeon)
Robert Adair (c. 1711 – 1790) was an Irish surgeon. Trained in Dublin, he was accused in 1737 of adultery with Anglo-Irish poet Laetitia Pilkington and left Ireland to travel to London. Adair became a member of the London Company of Barber Surgeons in 1738. His military career began when he joined the army in the role of staff surgeon in Flanders in March 1742, and a few months later in June 1742 he furthered his studies by enrolling at the medical school of Leiden University. By 1756, he was chief surgeon to the Hospital for the Forces in Britain. In 1761, he was appointed Inspector of Regimental Infirmaries in Britain (with the rank of Inspector-General), and by 1767 had been appointed Master of his professional body, the Surgeons' Company in London (which had broken away from the barbers in 1745). Further honours came in 1773 with his appointment as surgeon (Serjeant Surgeon) to King George III and to the Royal Chelsea Hospital. In 1786, four years before his death on 16 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Adair (politician)
Sir Robert Adair Order of the Bath, GCB (24 May 1763 – 3 October 1855) was a distinguished British diplomacy, diplomat, and frequently employed on the most important diplomatic missions. He was the son of Robert Adair (surgeon), Robert Adair, sergeant-surgeon to George III, and Lady Caroline Keppel, daughter of Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle. He was educated at Westminster School and the University of Göttingen, and then studied law at Lincoln's Inn, but hardly practised as a barrister. He hoped to gain office as Under-secretary of State to Charles James Fox, but he was in opposition. Following the French Revolution, he travelled in Europe, visiting Berlin, Vienna, and St Petersburg to study the effects of the revolution and equip himself for a diplomatic career. He became British Whig Party, Whig Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Appleby (UK Parliament constituency), Appleby (1799–1802) and Camelford (UK Parliament con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Adair, 1st Baron Waveney
Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, 1st Baron Waveney (25 August 1811 – 15 February 1886) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridge for 8 of the years from 1847 to 1857. Life Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland, he was the older of the two sons of Sir Robert Shafto Adair, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Elizabeth Maria Strode. He married Theodosia Meade in 1836; they had no children. Adair first stood for election to Parliament in April 1843, when he was the runner-up at a by-election for the Eastern division of Suffolk. He was unsuccessful again at a by-election for the borough of Cambridge in July 1845,Craig, op. cit., pages 76–77 but at the 1847 general election he was elected as one of Cambridge's two MPs. He was defeated at the 1852 general election, but that result was overturned on petition and he was returned to the House of Commons at the resulting by-election in August 1854. He was unseated again in 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Adair (cricketer)
Robert Emile Adair (1876 – 18 March 1951) was an Irish cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He first played for Ireland against I Zingari in August 1899, and next played in Ireland's first four first-class matches in 1902, his last coming against Cambridge University. He later played for a Scottish Counties team against Yorkshire in 1910 in a match that was abandoned after one day due to the death of King Edward VII Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria a .... ReferencesScorecard of match for Scottish Counties [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Adair (actor)
Robert Adair (3 January 1900 – 10 August 1954) was an American-born British actor. He was born in San Francisco. He was also known as Robert A'Dair, the name by which he was billed in ''Journey's End'' (1930). Adair died of leukemia in London. Selected filmography * ''Journey's End'' (1930) * '' The Dover Road'' (1934) * '' The Girl Who Came Back'' (1935) * '' London by Night'' (1937) * '' The Ticket of Leave Man'' (1937) * '' What a Man!'' (1938) * '' The Face at the Window'' (1939) * ''It's Hard to Be Good'' (1948) * '' Portrait of Clare'' (1950) * ''There Is Another Sun'' (1951) * '' There Was a Young Lady'' (1953) * ''Park Plaza 605'' (1953) * ''Eight O'Clock Walk ''Eight O'Clock Walk'' is a 1954 British drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Richard Attenborough, Cathy O'Donnell, Derek Farr and Maurice Denham. Its plot involves a taxi driver who is tried for the murder of a young girl on a bo ...'' (1954) References SourcesThe Actors Compendium(include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Adair (physicist)
Robert Kemp Adair (August 14, 1924 – September 28, 2020) was an American physicist. He latterly held the position of Sterling Professor Emeritus of physics at Yale University. Biography Adair served in the European theatre after volunteering for World War II and was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze star. After achieving a doctorate in experimental nuclear physics at the University of Wisconsin he worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Long Island. In 1959 he joined the faculty at Yale, serving as chair of the Department of Physics and director of the Division of Physical Sciences. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976 where he served as Chairman of the Physics Section 1986-1989 and Chairman of the Class of Physical Sciences 1991-1994. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997, after a distinguished career in, among many other subfields of physics, weak-interaction (Kaon) physics at the Alternating Gradient Syn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
