Edward Hamlyn Adams

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A portrait of Adams c. 1842
An 1815 painting of Middleton Hall

Edward Hamlyn Adams (30 April 1777 – 1842) was a British merchant and politician. He was born on 30 April 1777 in

Welsh patronym) or Abadam; he married Louisa Taylor.[1][5]

There were three daughters of the marriage of Edward the elder and Amelia. They included Matilda Adams (1815–1896), who was the mother of Eugene Lee-Hamilton, by her first husband James Lee-Hamilton (died 1852), and Vernon Lee (real name Violet Paget), by her second husband Henry Ferguson Paget.[6][7]

Edward Abadam (1809–1875) quarrelled with his brother William (1814–1851). He had four daughters, the youngest being Alice Abadam, who became a leader in the suffragist and feminist movement.[8] He left Middleton Hall to the eldest, Lucy (1840–1902), who married the Rev. Richard Gwynne Lawrence (1835–1923). It then passed to her sister Adah (1842–1914), and to her son William John Hamlin Hughes, who sold the estate in 1919.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Williams, William Retlaw (1895). "The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales, from the earliesr times to the present day, 1541-1895, comprising lists of the representatives, chronologically arranged under counties, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, together with particulars of the various contested elections, double returns and petitions". Internet Archive. Brecknock: Private printing, Edward Davies & Bell. p. 49. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Summary of Individual Edward Hamlin Adams, ???? - 1842, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". Retrieved 18 June 2018.
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  4. ^ Cave, Edward; Nichols, John (1842). The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... p. 110. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  5. ^ Walford, Edward (1864). The County Families of the United Kingdom, Or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland (2 ed.). Hardwicke. p. 1. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
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