– 1814) was a Scottish compiler of books for young readers.
Having graduated from the university there, he obtained a preaching license, and coming to London was appointed minister of the Scotch church in Hatton Garden.
Subsequently he opened a school or academy at Putney, which proved very successful; the botanists Allan Cunningham and his brother Richard were pupils.
[1] Most of his numerous works passed through many editions, and were largely used in schools.
Among them may be mentioned:[1] Adams also published by subscription a volume of sermons dedicated to Lord Grantham in 1805, and he was the author of a very popular Latin schoolbook, entitled Lectiones Selectæ, which reached an eleventh edition in 1823.