John Kenneth Adams (1915-2003) was an English schoolmaster, journalist and ornithologist, who served as editor of Country Life from 1958 to 1973.

[1] Adams first worked as an assistant master at Stonyhurst College, before signing up with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1940, during World War II.

[1] During that time, he began to work for The Guardian as a leader writer,[1] although the position was never made permanent.

", Country Diary columns for The Guardian, and ornithological articles for The Ibis, including an obituary for Wilfred Backhouse Alexander, also signed "J.K.A.".

[1] A notice in The Ibis announced his death, and promised an obituary "in [a] future issue",[7] but none seems to have been published.