William Augustus Adam (27 May 1865 – 18 October 1940)[1] was a British Army officer[2] and Conservative Party[3] politician.
Adam was educated at Harrow School, Trinity College Dublin, and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
Adam was a member of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers of the British Army, and fought in the Second Boer War and First World War, and reached the rank of major.
In 1906, the Army Council decided that Major Adam should be made to retire, owing to his unsuitability as a cavalry leader.
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