William Patrick Adam
1823–81
Liberal politician. BA, Cambridge, 1846. Called to the bar, 1849. A lord of the Treasury, 1868–73. First commissioner of works and paymaster-general, 1873–4 and 1880. Governor of Madras, 1880–1.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
ODNB.
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.