Edward Hamlin Adams

Supplier of enslaved labour to the British state in Jamaica in partnership with Robert Robertson (q.v.) and possible the Earl of Balcarres. Second but surviving son of William Adams of Barbados, but himself born in Jamaica. Shown as Edward H. Adams when listed with Robert Robertson as the absentee trustees of Hungerford Spooner for Charlottenburg estate in St Mary, Jamaica, 1817-1823 but identifiable as Edward Hamlin Adams from the 1813 will of George Bogle (q.v.), under which Edward Hamlin Adams and Robert Robertson were executors in Jamaica.

Married Amelia Sophia MacPherson, daughter of Captain John MacPherson of Philadelphia, in 1796.

1. MP for Carmathenshire December 1832-1834. Purchased Middleton Hall, designed by S.P. Cockerell for the East India nabob Sir William Paxton 1794-1796, in 1824, and died there in 1842.

2. 'A retired partner in the Kingston merchant house that the elder Earl [of Balcarres, q.v. under the 6th Earl] had retained to manage [his] Jamaica properties.'

3. Edward Hamlin Adams's grand-daughter Alice Abadam has an entry in the ODNB as a suffrage activist and women's rights campaigner that acknowledges her grandfather's slave-owning interests in Jamaica.

1. Nicholas Kingsley, Abadam (Adams) of Middleton Hall [accessed 15/12/2016].

2. James A. Delle and Kristen R. Fellows, 'Death and Burial at Marshall''s Pen, a Jamaica coffee plantation, 1814-1839: examining the end of life at the end of slavery', Slavery & Abolition 35:3 (September 2014) pp. 474-492 at p. 477.

3. Hughes-Johnson, Alexandra. "Abadam, Alice (1856–1940), suffrage activist and women’s right’s campaigner." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 12 Sep. 2019; Accessed 16 Mar. 2020. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-112786.