Sir Theodore Samuel Adams (1885–1961) was a British colonial civil servant.

[1] Adams graduated from All Souls College, University of Oxford and entered the British colonial civil service.

He then had a succession of more senior appointments in Malaya before becoming Chief Commissioner of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria from 1937.

[1] Adams played a part in the Selangor succession dispute.

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