Robert Adair, 1st Baron Waveney
Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, 1st Baron Waveney (25 August 1811 – 15 February 1886)[1] was a British Liberal Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridge for 8 of the years from 1847 to 1857.
Life
Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland,[2] he was the older of the two sons of Sir Robert Shafto Adair, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Elizabeth Maria Strode.[3] He married Theodosia Meade in 1836; they had no children.[4]
Adair first stood for election to Parliament in April 1843, when he was the runner-up at a by-election for the Eastern division of Suffolk.[5] He was unsuccessful again at a by-election for the borough of Cambridge in July 1845,[6] but at the 1847 general election he was elected as one of Cambridge's two MPs.[6] He was defeated at the 1852 general election, but that result was overturned on petition and he was returned to the House of Commons at the resulting by-election in August 1854. He was unseated again in 1857 general election, and, at the 1859 general election, again unsuccessfully contested East Suffolk.[6] He stood again one more time, in Canterbury at the 1865 general election, but did not win a seat.[7] He was appointed High Sheriff of Antrim in 1853.[8]
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Ballymena
The Adair family owned extensive estates in Ballymena, and have been described as the "founding fathers" of the town.[15] The town is built on land given to the Adair family by King Charles 1 in 1626, on the provision that the town holds two annual fairs and a free Saturday market in perpetuity.[16]
In 1865 Adair began the construction in the demesne of
References
- ^ a b "Baronetage: A, part 1". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "Adair, Robert Alexander Shafto". Dictionary of Ulster Biography. Retrieved 12 January 2010. [dead link]
- ^ Lundy, Darryl. "Sir Robert Shafto Adair, 1st Bt". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 12 January 2010.[unreliable source]
- ^ Lundy, Darryl. "Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, 1st and last Baron Waveney". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 12 January 2010.[unreliable source]
- ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ a b c Craig, op. cit., pages 76–77
- ^ Craig, op. cit., page 79
- ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ Norman E.H. Litchfield, The Militia Artillery 1852–1909 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges), Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1987, ISBN 0-9508205-1-2, pp. 130–3.
- ^ Army List, various dates.
- ^ "No. 23964". The London Gazette. 4 April 1873. p. 1822.
- ^ a b "Peerages: W, part 1". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Freemasonry in Suffolk" (PDF). The Freemason's Chronicle. XXIII (57, Saturday 10 April 1886): 225–226. 1886.
- ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society who are or were Freemasons, listed alphabetically" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ "History". Ballymena Borough Council website. Archived from the original on 1 April 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
- ^ "Brief History of Ballymena". Ballee Baptist Church website. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
- ^ "Ballymena Historic Timeline". Ballymena Borough Council website. Archived from the original on 3 July 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
- ^ "History of the People's Park". Ballymena Borough Council website. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Robert Adair
- Portraits of Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, Baron Waveney at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Adair family archives, at the National Archives