Anthony Patrick Cawthra Adamson OC (October 7, 1906 – May 3, 2002) was a Canadian architect, author, teacher, and municipal politician.
[1] Born in Toronto, Ontario to Colonel Agar Adamson and Mabel Cawthra, he grew up in Port Credit, Ontario on the family estate, before reading Architecture at the University of Cambridge and at the University of London.
[citation needed] Adamson was an architect, architectural planner, and an Associate Professor of Town Planning at the University of Toronto from 1950 to 1967.
Adamson also wrote several books with Marion MacRae, including The Ancestral Roof: Domestic Architecture of Upper Canada (Toronto : Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1963), The Gaiety of Gables (Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1974), Hallowed Walls: Church Architecture of Upper Canada (Toronto : Vancouver : Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1975), Cornerstones of Order: Courthouses and Town Halls of Ontario, 1784-1914 (Toronto : Clarke, Irwin, 1983).
Being the story of the direct Canadian ancestors of Augusta and Anthony Adamson (Toronto: privately published, 1987).