Edward Hamlyn Adams

Edward Hamlyn Adams (30 April 1777 – 1842) was a British merchant and politician.

[1] After coming of age, he worked as a merchant in Kingston, establishing a partnership with Robert Robertson.

They included Matilda Adams (1815–1896), who was the mother of Eugene Lee-Hamilton, by her first husband James Lee-Hamilton (died 1852), and Vernon Lee (real name Violet Paget), by her second husband Henry Ferguson Paget.

He had four daughters, the youngest being Alice Abadam, who became a leader in the suffragist and feminist movement.

It then passed to her sister Adah (1842–1914), and to her son William John Hamlin Hughes, who sold the estate in 1919.