Adam De Cardonnel (died 1719)
Adam de Cardonnel or Adam Cardonnel may refer to: * Adam Mansfeldt de Cardonnel-Lawson, born Adam Cardonnel, (1746/7–1820), Scottish antiquarian * Adam de Cardonnel (died 1719) (1663–1719), English administrator {{hndis, Cardonnel, Adam de ...
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Adam Mansfeldt De Cardonnel-Lawson
Adam Mansfeldt de Cardonnel-Lawson, in early life Adam Cardonnel (1746/7–1820) was a Scottish antiquarian. Life He was the sole surviving son of Mansfeldt de Cardonnel of Musselburgh, a commissioner of the customs and salt duties in Scotland, and his wife Anne, daughter and heir of Thomas Hilton of Low Ford, County Durham. He was a grandnephew of Adam de Cardonnel, secretary to the Duke of Marlborough. Cardonnel was educated for the medical profession, and practised for a while as a surgeon. When the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland was founded in December 1780, he was elected a fellow; he also served as curator from 1782 to 1784. When Francis Grose visited Scotland, Cardonnel assisted him. In the autumn of 1789 Robert Burns addressed a letter to Grose and enclosed the letter under cover to Cardonnel at Edinburgh, with his impromptu ''Ken ye ought o' Captain Grose?''. Cardonnel left Scotland on succeeding to the estates of his second cousin Hilton Lawson, at Chirton and Cr ...
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