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578: 573: 568: 36: 103:, which published severe comments on the government. Adam cancelled Buckingham's license for residence in India, and passed regulations restricting newspaper criticism. Buckingham appealed to the court of proprietors at home, to the House of Commons, and to the Privy Council; but the action of Adam was upheld by each of these three bodies. Another unpopular act of Adam's governor-generalship was to withdraw official support from the banking firm of Palmer, who had acquired great influence with the 358: 641: 89:
As senior member of council, Adam became Acting Governor General of India on Lord Hastings's departure in January 1823. His rule lasted for seven months, until the arrival of
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Adam also appropriated public money for the encouragement of Indian education. His health broke down and he left his job and he left in March 1825. After a voyage to
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An English Country House in Calcutta: mapping networks between Government House, the statesman John Adam, and the architect Robert Adam
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in the lower Himalayas, he embarked on a ship to return him to his parents in Britain. He died off the coast of
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was an Indian-built ship of about 580 tons burthen, appointed in 1821 for the accommodation of the mission of
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Most of Adam's career was spent in the secretariat. He was private as well as political secretary to the
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in August of the same year. It saw the suppression of the freedom of the English press in India.
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Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-general of India to the Courts of Siam and Cochin China
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in his role as King of India (1947–50). As representatives of George VI and then
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on 4 June 1825. He was buried at sea but he is memorialised within the family tomb in
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Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Grampian Society, 1871
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in their roles as King and Queen of Pakistan, respectively.
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Index

Governor-General
British East India Company

Charles Turner
William Adam of Blair Adam
Charterhouse School
Edinburgh University
Calcutta
India
East India Company
Marquess of Hastings
Third Anglo-Maratha War
Lord Amherst
James Silk Buckingham
Calcutta Journal
Nizam of Hyderabad
Bombay
Almorah
Madagascar
Greyfriars Kirkyard
Edinburgh
John Crawfurd




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