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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Rew, Malborough, South Devon on 11 June 1851, eighth child and fourth son of Richard Adams, yeoman farmer, and Mary Dorothy Fairweather his wife. His elder brother, James Adams, FRCS, was the third son in the family, and Josiah Oake Adams, FRCS, was his cousin. John Adams was educated at Dr Templeton's school in Exeter and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital on 1 October 1869. Here he acted as house surgeon to Dr James Andrew, was resident midwifery assistant under Dr Robert Greenhalgh and acted as a casualty physician for six months. He then settled in practice in Aldersgate Street and was appointed medical officer to the Royal General Dispensary in Bartholomew Close. He soon acquired a large general practice in the City, his patients ranging from junior clerks to Lord Mayors. He married Ellen Sparrow Worth (who died on 6 December 1923) on 23 September 1880, died on 27 January 1938, and was survived by two sons and five daughters. He was buried at Bigbury, Devon. His son, Francis Philip Adams MRCS 1931 of 54 Shepherd Market, London W1 died on 19 March 1942. Throughout his long life John Adams was greatly beloved for his kindness of heart, and respected for his sterling honesty and good sense. Living close to St Bartholomew's Hospital, there was rarely a day when he was not seen within its precincts. He was never elected to the permanent staff, but from 1904 when he was made a Governor he was continuously in touch with the administrative side of the hospital and served for some years as chairman of the Drugs and Appliances Committee. He was a loyal churchman and served as churchwarden of St Botolph's, Aldersgate Street, taking an active part in the formation of "The Postman's Park" which is situated upon the City Ditch. He acted as Master of the Tin Plate Company, was president of the Hunterian Society and was chairman of the City division of the British Medical Association in 1920. Having accepted a commission in the RAMC Territorial Force when it was formed in 1908, he served during the war as honorary surgeon to the Red Cross Hospital established in the Fishmongers Hall, with the rank of full colonel. He was for many years surgeon to the Hospital of the Sisters of the Poor in Paul Street, Finsbury, to St Margaret's Hospital, Kentish Town, to the Sheffield Street venereal disease hospital, and to the Thavies Inn centre for pregnant women with venereal disease and their new-born children. Here he did such valuable work in connexion with the preventive treatment of syphilis in new-born children that he was awarded a special centenary medal by the Hunterian Society. Publication: Ante-natal and post natal syphilis. *St Bart's Hosp Rep*. 1923, 56, 111.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, John (1805 - 1877)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Plaistow, in Essex, Oct 16th, 1805, the son of James Adams, who owned and farmed many acres at Beamerside, Plaistow. Educated at Reading Grammar School, Dr Richard Valpy, the well-known classic, being then headmaster. Entered the London Hospital as a student and was articled to John Goldwyer Andrews (qv), Surgeon to the Hospital, and President of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1835 and again in 1843. In 1828 he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy, being subsequently Lecturer on Anatomy and later Lecturer on Surgery. He was Assistant Surgeon for the long period of nineteen years, before he became full Surgeon, a post he resigned in 1868, when he was appointed Consulting Surgeon. He also acted as Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, to the Tower Hamlets Dispensary, and to the South-Eastern Railway. He was a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1862-1869, and of the Court of Examiners from 1868-1872. For many years he was Secretary of the London Hospital Medical Club and acted as President of the Hunterian Society. In 1830 he lived in Mount Street, close to the Hospital; in 1831 he moved to Mark Lane, and in 1835 to New Broad Street. In 1850 he took the house in St Helen's Place which had been built by Sir William Blizard and occupied by his old master, John Goldwyer Andrews. In 1865 he went to live at 10 Finsbury Circus, and two years later returned to Blackheath, where he died on Jan 18th, 1877, being buried in the cemetery at Charlton. The list of his removals is interesting because it marks the gradual movement of the staff of the London Hospital from east to west until they settled in Finsbury Square, where they remained for many years. John Adams married, at Poplar Parish Church, Mary Ann Frost, daughter of Robert Frost, who was in the service of the Honourable East India Company, and by her had two sons and two daughters. Francis Mantell, BA, of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, a barrister and member of the Inner Temple, died young; the second son was James Edward (qv). Mr William Adams Frost, FRCS, is a nephew. Portraits of John Adams remain in the possession of the family. He is said to have been very popular both with the staff and with the students, and his colleagues presented him with a handsome clock when he retired from office in the London Hospital Club. He was firm but genial with the students, and when, as was usual, a disturbance arose in his class, he used suddenly to bring down his fist like a sledge-hammer upon the table and shout, “If you don't stop this bloody row I will close the lecture.” Publications:- *The Anatomy and Diseases of the Prostate Gland*, London, 1851; 2nd ed., 1858. An article in Cooper's *Surgical Dictionary* on “Injuries of the Head,” and another on the Urethra in the *Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology*.
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