David Laird Adams

David Laird Adams (1837–1892) was a Scottish academic who was professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at the University of Edinburgh.

[1] Adams studied arts and divinity at the University of Edinburgh, receiving a prize for Biblical criticism.

[3] In 1880 he replaced Prof David Liston as professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages at the University of Edinburgh.

[4][5] He died at Primrose Villa, Victoria Park, in Trinity, Edinburgh, on 2 August 1892.

[6] A sketch of Prof Adams by William Brassey Hole is held by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.