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William Adam (other)
William Adam may refer to: * William Adam (died c.1341), French archbishop and missionary *William Adam (architect) (1689–1748), Scottish architect, mason, and entrepreneur *William Adam of Blair Adam (1751–1839), Scottish Member of the British Parliament and judge *William Patrick Adam (1823–1881), British colonial administrator and Liberal politician *William Adam (minister) (1796–1881), Scottish Baptist minister, missionary, abolitionist *William Adam (artist) (1846–1931), English landscape artist who worked in California for 33 years *William Adam (malacologist) (1909–1988), Belgian malacologist *William Adam (trumpeter) (1917–2013), American trumpeter, and professor emeritus at Indiana University * William Augustus Adam (1865–1940), British and army officer and Conservative Party politician *Will Adam (born 1969), Archdeacon of Canterbury See also *Bill Adam Bill Adam (born May 25, 1946) is a Canadian racing driver born in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Adam
Guillaume Adam ( la, Guillelmus Adae), also known in English as William Adam (died c. 1341), was a Dominican missionary, writer, and French Catholic archbishop. Adam served as the Papal missionary in Persia from 1314 to 1317, one of six Dominicans sent by Pope John XXII to Persia. However, it is now thought that Adam was probably in Persia before 1314, during the pontificate of Pope Clement V. He was transferred to Smyrna in 1318, and served as their bishop. In 1322, he was promoted to archbishop of Soltaniyeh in Persia. On 26 October 1324, he was elected Archbishop of Antivari Bar (Montenegrin language, Montenegrin and Serbian language, Serbian: Бар, ; sq, Tivar; it, Antivari or ''Antibari'') is a coastal town and seaport in southern Montenegro. It is the capital of the Bar Municipality and a center for tourism ... in the Old Doclea. After a disagreement with the Pope, Adam stepped down as archbishop in 1341. William wrote one treatise on the recovery of the Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Adam (architect)
William Adam (1689 – 24 June 1748) was a Scottish architect, mason, and entrepreneur. He was the foremost architect of his time in Scotland,McWilliam, p.57 designing and building numerous country houses and public buildings, and often acting as contractor as well as architect. Among his best known works are Hopetoun House near Edinburgh, and Duff House in Banff. His individual, exuberant style built on the Palladian style, but with Baroque details inspired by Vanbrugh and Continental architecture. In the 18th century, Adam was considered Scotland's "Universal Architect". However, since the early 20th century, architectural critics have taken a more measured view, Colin McWilliam, for instance, finding the quality of his work "varied to an extreme degree". As well as being an architect, Adam was involved in several industrial ventures and improvement schemes, including coal mining, salt panning, stone quarries and mills. In 1731 he began to build up his own estate in Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Adam Of Blair Adam
The Right Hon. William Adam of Blair Adam (2 August 175117 February 1839) was a Scottish advocate, barrister, politician and judge. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland (1802–1805) and as Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court (1815–39). His political career was affected by his father's periodic financial problems, as sometimes the family had substantial wealth and sometimes it was in difficulties, forcing Adam to concentrate his attention on his legal practice. He rose to be Lord Lieutenant of Kinross-shire. His most important contribution to Scottish Law was probably the introduction of trial by jury on civil (non-criminal) cases. Life William Adam was the only surviving son of Jean Ramsay and John Adam of Blairadam, architect and master mason to the Board of Ordnance in Scotland, of Maryburgh, Kinross. His uncle was the architect Robert Adam. Blairadam House where he was born lies just north of Kelty in Fife but on an isolated side road. He was educate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Patrick Adam
William Patrick Adam, CIE, DL (14 September 1823 – 24 May 1881) was a British colonial administrator and Liberal politician. He was twice First Commissioner of Works under William Gladstone and also served briefly as Governor of Madras between 1880 and 1881. Background and education Adam was the son of Admiral Sir Charles Adam, son of William Adam, only surviving son of the architect John Adam, brother of architects Robert Adam and James Adam. His mother was Elizabeth Brydone, daughter of Patrick Brydone, while John Adam and Sir Frederick Adam were his uncles.Beauclerk Dewar, Peter. ''Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain, 19th edition''. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage and Gentry LLC, 2001. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1849. Political career Adam was secretary to the Governor of Bombay, Lord Elphinstone (his second cousin), from 1853 to 1858. In 1859 he was elected Member of Parliament fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Adam (minister)
William Adam (1 November 1796 – 19 February 1881) was a British Baptist minister, missionary, abolitionist and Harvard professor. Scotland and India Adam was born in Dunfermline in Scotland, and it was after being inspired by the churchman Thomas Chalmers that he decided to go to India. He arranged to be educated at the Baptist College in Bristol and to the University of Glasgow. Adam volunteered to become a missionary and by 1818 he was working hard north of Calcutta trying to master Sanskrit and Bengali. Having learned these he was engaged in creating a translation of the new testament in Bengali. He worked with Ram Mohan Roy and he supported Roy's insight into the translation. Later after many discussions on Christianity and Indian thoughts on God, he found himself unable to resolve the doubts on Jesus Doctrines and logically felt defeated. (The life and letters of Raja Rammohun Roy by Collet, Sophia Dobson, 1822-1894, Page-68) Adam lost interest in the Baptist Mission, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Adam (artist)
William Constable Adam (29 August 1846 – 17 October 1931) was an English-born oil and watercolour painter of Scottish ancestry who spent the last 33 years of his life in California, United States. Biography Adam was born just south of his paternal Scotland in Tweedmouth on the outskirts of Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1846. After completing grammar school, he began evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art. An online facsimile of the entire text of Vol. 1 is posted on the Traditional Fine Arts Organization website (http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/10aa/10aa557.htm). According to the 1861 Census, he resided in Cathcart, now a suburb of Glasgow, with his large family; his occupation was given as "clerk." At the age of 19 he traveled to South America, studied art in Buenos Aires, worked as a broker in Montevideo, and in 1926 published a serialized travelogue of his adventures. On his return to Scotland (early 1870s) he continued his art training under Robert Greenlees and Robert Brydal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Adam (malacologist)
William Adam (27 Januari 1909, The Hague – 3 November 1988, Brussels) was a Dutch / Belgian malacologist who specialised in cephalopods. Adam described a number of cuttlefish and bobtail squid species, including '' Euprymna hoylei'', '' Sepia cottoni'', '' Sepia dollfusi'', '' Sepia dubia'', '' Sepia reesi'', '' Sepia sewelli'', '' Sepia thurstoni'', '' Sepia vercoi'', and '' Sepiola knudseni''. Adam was born as the son of Constance Jeannette Barkhuijsen and the merchant sailor William Adam. After his schooling in The Hague he visited Java in 1926-27. Upon his return home he studied biology at Utrecht University, obtaining his PhD in 1933 with a dissertation on terrestrial mollusk glands. He then took a position at the Museum of Natural Sciences The Museum of Natural Sciences of Belgium (french: Muséum des sciences naturelles de Belgique, nl, Museum voor Natuurwetenschappen van België) is a museum dedicated to natural history, located in Brussels, Belgium. The mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Adam (trumpeter)
William Alexander Adam (October 21, 1917 – November 25, 2013) was an American trumpeter, respected pedagogue, and Professor Emeritus at Indiana University. He was highly analytical as a teacher, but always avoided discussing the mechanical aspects of trumpet playing with a student. Instead he "taught" by demonstration and by explanation in terms of sound. In his own words, "If your mind leaves the sound of the horn, obstacles will appear." He gave many lectures throughout his life, but never wrote a book or article on his unconventional approach to trumpet. He believed such a medium was against the very nature of his teaching of trumpet. The only official documentation of his approach in a three-videotape series, ''A New and Different Way of Getting More Music out of Trumpet''. His approach is carried on by his former students, many of whom hold positions at music schools throughout the U.S. and around the world. He died on November 25, 2013 in Bloomington, Indiana. Notabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Augustus Adam
William Augustus Adam (27 May 1865 – 18 October 1940) was a British Army officer and Conservative Party politician. He was born with the surname "Adams" but later changed his name. Biography Adam was educated at Harrow School, the University of Dublin, and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Adam was a member of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers of the British Army, and fought in the Second Boer War and First World War, and reached the rank of major. He fought on the Japanese side in the Russo-Japanese War. In 1906, the Army Council decided that Major Adam should be made to retire, owing to his unsuitability as a cavalry leader. Those events would later give rise to the litigation in '' Adam v Ward''. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Woolwich Woolwich () is a district in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The district's location on the River Thames led to its status as an important naval, military and industrial area; a role t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Adam
William Adam is a Church of England priest. He was appointed Archdeacon of Canterbury in 2022 and had previously been the Deputy Secretary General of the Anglican Communion and ecumenism, ecumenical advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Education and family Will Adam was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and studied theology and English church history at Manchester University. He then attended Westcott House, Cambridge, from where he was sent to the Bossey Ecumenical Institute in Switzerland for six months in 1993. Adam later went on to earn a Master's degree in the United Kingdom, master’s degree and a doctorate in canon law at Cardiff Law School. His wife, Lindsay Yates is also an Anglican priest and they have three daughters. Career Adam was ordained Deacon#Anglicanism, deacon in 1994 and Priest#Anglicanism, priest in 1995 and served in parishes in the dioceses of Diocese of Oxford, Oxford (1994-2002), Diocese of Ely, Ely (2002-2010), and Diocese of London, London (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Adam
Bill Adam (born May 25, 1946) is a Canadian racing driver born in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Starting his career in sports cars toward the end of the 1970s, Adam drove as a privateer, winning a Canadian championship before being hired professionally. Invited to join the factory backed Group 44 race team in 1980, he spent time co-driving with Bob Tullius in the Triumph TR8 in the IMSA series and had GTO class victories at the 12 Hours of Sebring, Road Atlanta, Mosport, and Road America, as well as a victory at Daytona where he drove alone. In mid-1982, the team unveiled its Prototype Jaguar GTP racer, and it finished 3rd at its first race ever at Road America. In the 1983 season, Adam and Tullius led almost every race but the car proved fragile, although it they did win Road Atlanta, Lime Rock, Mosport and Pocono races. In 1985, Adam joined Conte Racing, co driving with John Paul Jr. in the factory-backed March GTP racer. Power came from a factory engine program at Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
