Born Feb 7th, 1878, the fifth son of William Adams, a merchant in the City of London. Educated at the City of London School and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he gained the entrance scholarship; served as House Surgeon and gained the Beaney scholarship in surgery and surgical pathology in 1904. He acted successively as Surgical Registrar and Resident Assistant Surgeon during the years 1905-1909, and was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital for Children at Shadwell, where he was Senior Surgeon at the time of his death. In 1913 he was elected Assistant Surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital, becoming full Surgeon in 1923. At the Royal College of Surgeons he lectured as Hunterian Professor in 1913, taking as his subject "Abdominal Adhesions", and in a second Hunterian Lecture in 1926 he dealt with the "Surgery of the Jejunum". During the war he acted with the rank of captain on the à la suite staff of the Fifth London General Hospital (the St Thomas's unit), and at King George's Hospital. He was hampered throughout his life by an ill-defined abdominal condition which a post-mortem examination showed to have been due to a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. He died on Dec 21st, 1926. He married Muriel, youngest daughter of Henry Webb, of Chislehurst, Kent, and lived at 19 Harley Street, W, having a cottage at Penshurst. [1] He left no children. Adams was brought up so strictly that when he entered St Thomas's Hospital he had never been inside a theatre and had never travelled by train on a Sunday, yet his high-mindedness, his thoroughness, and his ability more than compensated for this restriction, and rendered him acceptable both to his colleagues and to the students. Publications:- *Acute Abdominal Diseases, including Abdominal Injuries and the Complications of External Hernia*. Conjointly with Maurice Alan Cassidy. 8vo, London, 1913; 2nd ed, 1923. [Amendment from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] *The Times* 17 August 1957 ADAMS - On 16th August 1957, after a short illness and much suffering, MURIEL EMMA ADAMS, wife of the late J. E. Adams M.S., F.R.C.S. No flowers. Cremation at Golders Green Crematorium, 12.15pm Wednesday, 21st August. Letters to Mrs Webb (sister-in-law), 36, Kidbrooke Gardens, Blackheath, S.E.3.]