Harvey Adamson

Sir Harvey Adamson KCSI (7 October 1854 – 28 March 1941) was a member of the Indian Civil Service who served as an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India and Lieutenant-Governor of the British Crown Colony of Burma from May 1910 to October 1915, save for an interim period in 1913, when Sir George Shaw took the post.

Adamson was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) in the 1903 Durbar Honours,[1][2] knighted in 1906 and promoted to KCSI in 1910.

The steamship the "Sir Harvey Adamson" was launched on the River Clyde in 1914, built for the British India Steam Navigation Company by A & J Inglis.

Their son, Maurice Leslie Adamson, was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in the First World War.

Their daughter, Isabel, married Sir William John Keith, colonial administrator in Burma.