Colin Forbes Adam
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Colin Gurden Forbes Adam
DL (18 December 1889 – 12 November 1982) was a British civil servant in the Indian Civil Service.[1]
Adam was the youngest son of
Indian Expeditionary Force
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 Order of the Star of India in 1924.[2]
In 1948 Adam published Life of Lord Lloyd, a biography of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd.
Adam was a
Deputy Lieutenant
of Kingston-upon-Hull from 1958 to 1966.
References
- ^ 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
- ^ London Gazette 1st January 1924, page 4 - Colin Gurdon Adam, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay.
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