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ADAIR, ROBERT, natural son of Robert Adair, Serjeant-Surgeon to George III and Surgeon-Gen. to the Forces, and Mrs Mary Fenwick; b.; adm.; EICS Bengal; Senior Merchant 1770; present at OW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Memoirs of William Hickey, iii, 245-6, not otherwise evidenced as a OW); still in India 1789; living in England 1802. [If he was at the School, he is unlikely to have been at school under Nicoll, for he is not in Nicoll’s admission book : he might have been at school under Markham, but was he at the School at all?]
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.