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DNB

 * Article title: Adam, William (1751-1839)
 * Author: Sergeant, Lewis
 * LEAD: ADAM, WILLIAM (1751–1839), politician and lord chief commissioner of the Scottish jury court, son of John Adam, architect, of Maryburgh, Kinross, who died in 1792, and nephew of Robert and James Adam [see Adam, James, (d. 1794), and Adam, Robert, 1728–1792], was born 2 Aug. 1751.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2
 * LEAD: ADAM, WILLIAM (1751–1839), politician and lord chief commissioner of the Scottish jury court, son of John Adam, architect, of Maryburgh, Kinross, who died in 1792, and nephew of Robert and James Adam [see Adam, James, (d. 1794), and Adam, Robert, 1728–1792], was born 2 Aug. 1751.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2

General

 * Earl Russell's Life and Times of C. J. Fox
 * Paradise Regain'd, or the Battle of Adam and the Fox (1780)
 * Dundas's The Rolliad
 * Bond's Speeches of the Managers and Counsel in the Trial of Warren Hastings, vol. i.
 * Correspondence between Mr. Adam and Mr. Bowles, respecting the attack of the latter on the character of the late Duke of Bedford (1803)
 * Gent. Mag., May 1839
 * Life by G. L. Craik in the Dictionary of the S. D. U. K. (based on information specially communicated)
 * Lockhart's Life of Scott, ch. 50
 * various speeches published by Adam in his lifetime

Cites

 * Earl Russell's Life and Times of C. J. Fox
 * Dundas's Rolliad

Works

 * various speeches and letters
 * A Description and Representation of the Mural Monument in Calcutta Cathedral to the memory of John Adam, designed and executed by Richard Westmacott, R.A. (1827)
 * Remarks on the Blair Adam Estate, 1834
 * The Ragman's Rolls (edited, in conjunction with Sir Samuel Shepherd, for the Bannatyne Club, 1834)
 * a volume on the Scottish jury system