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Robert Adams (1668 - 1754)

Sir Robert Adams
Born in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 1714 [location unknown]
Died at about age 86 [location unknown]
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Biography

Adams, Sir Robert (c.1668-1754), 5th baronet, of London. Younger son of Sir William Adams (d. 1687) and his first wife Anne, daughter of John Rushout; born c.1668. There is no evidence that he attended a university or the inns of court, but he became a solicitor, probably through apprenticeship to a London attorney. He married first, Dorothea, daughter and co-heir of Piercy Wiseman esq. of Wimbish (Essex) and second, Diana (surname unknown), and had issue:

Capt. Sir Thomas Adams, 6th bt. (1738-70) (q.v.);

William Adams (d. before 1754). He lived at Wandsworth (Surrey). He died in 1754. His will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 24 October 1754. His widow died at Wandsworth (Surrey), 1765.

Sources

  • Adams family of Sprowston Hall, baronets: no significant archive is known to survive
  • Burke's Landed Gentry, successive editions; Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies; J. Kenworthy-Browne et al., Burke’s & Savill’s Guide to Country Houses: vol. 3, East Anglia, 1981, pp. 189-90; Sir N. Pevsner & B. Wilson, The buildings of England: Norfolk 1 – Norwich and North-East, 2nd edn., 1997, p. 672; D. Clarke, The country houses of Norfolk, pt 3: the city and suburbs, 2011, pp. 89-91.




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