John Adam (administrator)

[3] As senior member of council, Adam became Acting Governor General of India on Lord Hastings's departure in January 1823.

Adam cancelled Buckingham's license for residence in India, and passed regulations restricting newspaper criticism.

Buckingham appealed to the court of proprietors at home, to the House of Commons, and to the Privy Council; but the action of Adam was upheld by each of these three bodies.

Another unpopular act of Adam's governor-generalship was to withdraw official support from the banking firm of Palmer, who had acquired great influence with the Nizam of Hyderabad.

After a voyage to Bombay, and a visit to Almorah in the lower Himalayas, he embarked on a ship to return him to his parents in Britain.