Colin Gurden Forbes Adam CSI DL (18 December 1889 – 12 November 1982) was a British civil servant in the

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.ADAM, Colin Gurdon Forbes’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007
accessed 28 December 2012
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Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Baronet Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Baronet (17 June 1846 – 22 December 1926) was a British banker who made his fortune in British India. He was President of the Bank of Bombay.'ADAM, Sir Frank Forbes’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bl ...

. His older brothers were General

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GCB DSO OBE and

Eric Forbes Adam Eric Graham Forbes Adam (3 October 1888 – 7 July 1925) was a British diplomat and First Secretary to the Foreign Office. Adam was born in Malabar Hill, Bombay, India, the second son of Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Baronet. His older brother ...

CMG. He was educated at

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and King's College,

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. During the First World War he served as an officer with the

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to Mesopotamia and Palestine. In 1920 Adam married The Hon. Irene Constance Lawley, only child of Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock; they had three sons and a daughter: * Virginia Mary Forbes Adam (1922-2012), married Hugo Charteris MC. * The Rev. Sir Stephen Timothy Beilby Forbes Adam, 4th Baronet (1923-2019) * Desmond Francis Forbes Adam (1926-1958) * Nigel Colin Forbes Adam (1930-2022) Adam was appointed a Companion of the

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in 1924.London Gazette 1st January 1924, page 4 - Colin Gurdon Adam, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay. In 1948 Adam published ''Life of Lord Lloyd'', a biography of

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. Adam was a Deputy Lieutenant of Kingston-upon-Hull from 1958 to 1966.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adam, Colin Forbes Companions of the Order of the Star of India People educated at Eton College Indian Army personnel of World War I British Indian Army officers Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Deputy Lieutenants of the East Riding of Yorkshire Younger sons of baronets 1889 births 1982 deaths British military personnel in colonial India