ADAIR

Sir Robert ( son of Robert Adair, sergeant surgeon to George III, who d. 16 March 1790, by Caroline Keppel, 1737–69 elder dau. of Wm. Anne 3 Earl of Albemarle ). b. London 24 May 1763; ed. at Westminster and Univ. of Gottingen; called to the bar at L.I. 27 April 1785; M.P. Apple by, (whig) 18 June 1799–29 June 1802, for Camel ford 7 July 1802–29 Sep. 1812; minister to court of Vienna 7 May 1806–14 May 1807; minister to Constantinople 5 July 1808, and amba ador 14 April 1809; sent on a special mi ion to the Low Countries 1831–35; P.C. 23 July 1828; G.C.B. 3 Aug. 1831 for negotiating peace between Great Britain and Ottoman Porte in 1809; author of Historical memoir of a mi ion to court of Vienna in 1806 with a selection from despatches , 1844; The negotiations for the peace of the Dardanelles in 1808–1809 , 2 vols. 1845. ( m. 1805 Angélique Gabrielle dau. of Marque d’Hazincourt). d. 11 Chesterfield st. May fair, London 3 Oct. 1855. G.M., xliv , 535 (1855); Lord John Ru ell’s Memorials of C. J. Fox, vol. ii, appendix . Note. —At his death he was the senior knight of the order of the Bath, and the last survivor of those who were knights before its enlargement in 1814.