The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ndriacs. He died atNewLon, Massachusetts, Dec. 7, 1S73. ADAMS, , an eloquent English and Puri-tan preacher, of whose personal history few detailsare precisely known. From 1612 till about 1653 heheld charges in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, andLondon. His published works consist of collectionsof sermons (1618) and a commentary on the SecondEpistle of St. Peter (1633). ADAMS, WiLLUM, an English clergj-man andwriter of devotional works; born in 1814; was authorof The Shadow of the Cross (1842), and oth
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ndriacs. He died atNewLon, Massachusetts, Dec. 7, 1S73. ADAMS, , an eloquent English and Puri-tan preacher, of whose personal history few detailsare precisely known. From 1612 till about 1653 heheld charges in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, andLondon. His published works consist of collectionsof sermons (1618) and a commentary on the SecondEpistle of St. Peter (1633). ADAMS, WiLLUM, an English clergj-man andwriter of devotional works; born in 1814; was authorof The Shadow of the Cross (1842), and other sacredallegories. He died at Bonchurch, in the Isle ofWight, 1848. ADAMS, William, an English surgeon; born inLondon, Feb. i, 1820. In 1842 he was appointeddemonstrator of morbid anatomy at St. ThomassHospital, London. In 1867 he was elected vice-president of the Pathological Society; in 1873president of the Harveian Society; and in 1876president of the London Medical Society. He isthe author of several standard works on surgery,including Lateral Curvature of the Spine (1865, 2nd. WILLIAM ADAMS. ed., 1882); Clubfoot (1866, 2nd ed., 1873); Con-genital Displacement of the Hip-joint (1890), etc. ADAMS, William, an American Presbyterianclergyman; born at Colchester, Connecticut, , 1807. He graduated at Yale in 1827, studiedtheology at Andover, and was ordained pastor of theCongregational Churchin Brighton, Massachu-setts, in 1831. He tookcharge of the CentralPresljvterian Church, inNew York City, in 1834,and became moderatorof the new-school Gen-eral Assembly at Wash-ington in 1852. In 1853he became pastor of theMadison Square Pres-byterian Church, andfrom 1873 until hisdeath he presided over the Union Theological Semi-nary in New York City. He contributed numerousarticles to various religious magazines and wroteseveral devout books. He died at Orange Mountain,New Jersev, 31, 1880. ADAMS, William Forbes, the pioneer mission-ary bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Chu
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