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DNB

 * Article title: Adams, George (1698?-1768?)
 * Author: Grant, Arthur Henry
 * LEAD: ADAMS, GEORGE (1698?–1768?), translator, in prose, of Sophocles, dramatic poet, and probably a polemic and apologist, was sometime a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge (Cooper, New Biographical Dictionary), where he took his degrees of B.A. and M.A. respectively in 1719 and 1735 (Graduati Cantabrigienses, 1787).
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2
 * LEAD: ADAMS, GEORGE (1698?–1768?), translator, in prose, of Sophocles, dramatic poet, and probably a polemic and apologist, was sometime a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge (Cooper, New Biographical Dictionary), where he took his degrees of B.A. and M.A. respectively in 1719 and 1735 (Graduati Cantabrigienses, 1787).
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2

General

 * Dedication of the Tragedies of Sophocles, 1729, and of An Exposition, &c., 1752
 * Gent. Mag. Oct. 1746
 * Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica

Cites

 * Cooper, New Biographical Dictionary
 * Graduati Cantabrigienses, 1787
 * MS. Additions to Graduati Cantabrigienses, 1823
 * ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ for October 1746, p. 560
 * ‘Notes and Queries,’ 3 March 1860
 * Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ (ed. Hardy, London, 1854), ii. 274–5

Works

 * ‘The Tragedies of Sophocles, translated from the Greek. With Notes Historical, Moral, and Critical,’ 2 vols., 8vo, London, 1729
 * ‘The Heathen Martyr’
 * ‘The Life of Socrates: an Historical Tragedy,’ 8vo, London, 1746
 * ‘An Exposition of some Articles of Religion, which strike at the Tenets of the Arians and Socinians. Likewise at the Infidels, Romanists, Lutherans, and Calvinists. In several Sermons and Dissertations,’ 8vo, London, 1752
 * ‘A System of Divinity, Ecclesiastical History, and Morality. Collected from the Writings of Authors of various Nations and Languages, and from the noblest Doctors of the Christian Church,’ 8vo, London, 1768