The Adams Family
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Albinia Muriel Adams and her cousin W.
Maurice Pryke
photo provided by Jo Clinton
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Albinia Muriel
(Adams) Austin
30 August 1884, in Paddington,
Middlesex,
England
George
Edward D'Arcy Adams
Emily
Elizabeth (Doyne) Adams
Eric Austin in 1921 in Stroud
district, Gloucestershire, England
Albinia attended the
Birkbeck School of Art in London, under the headmastership of A. W.
Mason, and in 1909 she
was awarded the Hardy prize for painting flowers from nature.
1891: 1 Clifton Gardens,
Paddington, London
1901: 1 Clifton Gardens,
Paddington, London
Charles Gofton Adams
20 January 1887, in Paddington,
Middlesex,
England
George
Edward D'Arcy Adams
Emily
Elizabeth (Doyne) Adams
St Nicholas College,
Lancing, Sussex.
A register of S. Nicholas college, Lancing
p277 (1900)
Adams, Charles Gofton, born 20 Jan.,
1887, son of Dr. Adams (see No. 1582), entered S. H. Jan., 1899
(Brother of 1582 and 1591)
Johanna Schlossen
1891: 1 Clifton Gardens,
Paddington, London
1901: 1 Clifton Gardens,
Paddington, London
Emily Frances Margaret
(Adams) Bury
7 August 1892, in Oxford,
Oxfordshire,
England
George
Edward D'Arcy Adams
Emily
Elizabeth (Doyne) Adams
Charles Rugeley Bury on 11
July 1922 in Stroud
district, Gloucestershire, England. Charles was born on 29 June
1890, in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, the son of Charles Bury and
Aimee Gwynneth Pryse. He served in World War I and was made a temporary
Second Lieutenant in the Infantry on 11 November 1914 (London Gazette 10 November 1914 p9139).
Charles became a scientist in the field of physical chemistry and in
the post-war years made a major scientific contribution in correctly
assessing the relationship of the electronic structure of atoms to
their placement in the periodic table (Langmuir's Theory of the Arrangement of Electrons in
Atoms and Molecules by Charles R. Bury, 1921). Charles died
in 1968, in West Sussex.
1891: 2 Northfield Villas,
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
The world of physical chemistry p344 by
Keith James Laidler (1993):
An alternative proposal was put forward in
1921 by Charles Rugeley Bury (1890-1968), who was a lecturer at the
University College of Wales at Aberystwyth. The scheme that he
described succinctly in a mere seven pages is essentially the scheme to
be found in modern introductory textbooks of chemistry and physics. He
deduced from the chemical evidence that the electrons are arranged in
successive layers containing 2, 8, 18 and 32 electrons. He gave a clear
discussion of the electronic arrangements in the actinides and
lanthanides, and even made some predictions (inevitably not quite
correct) for the transuranic elements.
Bury's scheme was reproduced in The Electronic Theory of Valency by
Nevil Vincent Sidgwick (1873-1952); this was an important book that
first appeared in 1927 and which interpreted the chemical behavior of
the elements in terms of their electronic configurations. Sidgwick
acknowledged the important contribution of Bury, but almost all
subsequent accounts have failed to do so and Bury's name is now almost
entirely forgotten.Many accounts of the electronic configurations give
the credit to Bohr. In 1921 Bohr did write two letters to Nature on the electronic
configurations, but he only considered the noble gases. In his Nobel
Prize address, a translation of which was published in Nature in 1923, Bohr did mention
Bury and included a scheme that is essentially Bury's, without making
it clear that this is the case.
A striking example of the failure to acknowledge Bury's work is
to be found in connection with the discovery of the element hafnium, of
atomic number 72. When Bury wrote his paper hafnium had not been
discovered, but he referred to the missing element 72 and predicted
that it would not be a rare earth but would resemble zirconium. Bohr,
knowing of this prediction, suggested to his assistants György Hevesy
(1885 - 1966) and Dirk Coster (1889 - 1950) that they should look for
the missing element in zirconium ores. They discovered it in
1922, in time for Bohr to announce its discovery in his Nobel Prize
address in December of that year. Hevesy and Coster confirmed that
hafnium is not a rare earth but an analogue of zirconium, but in their
report of the discovery Bury was not mentioned.
1901: 1 Clifton Gardens,
Paddington, London
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George Edward D'Arcy Adams
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George Edward D'Arcy Adams
Doctor
1846, in Nailsea, Somerset,
England
14 August 1846, in Wraxall,
Somerset,
England
George Adams
Emily (Homer) Adams
Honiton Grammar School, then
King's College, London, and Aberdeen, and
graduated M.B., C.M. in 1867. He proceeded M.D. in 1874, and obtained
the D.P.H. Camb. in 1881.
Emily
Elizabeth Doyne on 1 June 1876, in All Saints, Wraxall, Somerset.
George D'Arcy
Adams is recorded as a bachelor, aged 30, a doctor of medicine from
West Town in the parish of Backwell, the son of George Adams, a
surgeon. Emily Elizabeth Doyne is listed as a spinster, aged 22, of
Wraxall Cottage, the daughter of Philip Walter Doyne, a clerk in holy
orders.
The Medical times and gazette 10 June
1876
MARRIAGES.
ADAMS-DOYNE,- On June 1, at the parish
church, Wraxall, George Edward
d'Arcy Adams, M.D., of West Town, Backwell, Somerset, to Emily
Elizabeth Doyne,
second daughter of the late Rev. P.W. Doyne.
Medical Doctor. George was
registered as a medical practitioner on 17 January 1868. For several
years George held the appointment of
surgeon on the Estancia San Jorge, Montevideo, Uruguay, but owing to
his father becoming ill he returned to England and practised with him
until 1880, when he purchased a practice in Maida Vale, London, at the
same time being appointed medical officer to the Paddington Provident
Dispensary and Kilburn General Dispensary. Later he joined Drs. Webb
and Walker, who were in practice in the same district. Dr. Webb died
and Dr. Walker retired, and Dr. Harold Darwin Hey subsequently joined
him in partnership. Dr. D'Arcy Adams retired in 1919, after thirty-nine
years in arduous general practice.
Dr. D'Arcy Adams was familiar with many European languages, including
French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; he
translated articles in foreign medical magazines for English
publications, many of which can be seen in, for example, The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1885),
The London medical record (1887) and The London medical recorder (1890)
George was elected a fellow
of the Geological Society on 7 February 1883. At the time the president
of the Society was John Whitaker Hulke.
(Nature 13 March 1883 p474)
20 March 1926, at Bussage,
Brimscombe, Gloucestershire, aged 79
British Medical Journal 17 April 1926
p725
We regret to record the death of Dr. GEORGE EDWARD
D'ARCY ADAMS, at Bussage, Brimscombe,
Glos., on March 20th, in his 80th year. He was the eldest son of the
late Dr. George Adams, who practised for many years at Nailsea,
Somerset. Dr. D'Arcy Adams received his medical education at King's
College, London, and Aberdeen, and graduated M.B., C.M. in 1867. He
proceeded M.D. in 1874, and obtained the D.P.H.Camb. in 1881. For
several years he held the appointment of surgeon on the Estancia San
Jorge, Montevideo, Uruguay, but owing to his father becoming ill he
returned to England and practised with him until 1880, when he
purchased a practice in Maida Vale, London, at the same time being
appointed medical officer to the Paddington Provident Dispensary and
Kilburn General Dispensary. Later he joined Drs. Webb and Walker, who
were in practice in the same district. Dr. Webb died and Dr. Walker
retired, and Dr. Harold Darwin Hey subsequently joined him in
partnership. Dr. D'Arcy Adams retired in 1919, after thirty-nine years
in arduous general practice. He was a very well read man, familiar with
many European languages, including French, German, Norwegian, Spanish,
Italian, and Portuguese; in his earlier days he translated articles in
foreign medical magazines for English publications. His favourite hobby
was sketching, in which he took great delight. He was greatly beloved
by his patients and friends, alike for his courtesy, generosity, and
unselfish devotion to his work. He leaves a widow, three sons (of whom
two are members of the medical profession), and two daughters, with
whom much sympathy is felt. He was a member of the British Medical
Association.
1872: Nailsea, Somerset (The Medical Register p2, 1872)
1875: Nailsea, Somerset (The Medical Register p2, 1875)
1881:
1 Clifton Gardens, London, Middlesex
1891: 1 Clifton Gardens,
Paddington, London
1901: 1 Clifton Gardens,
Paddington, London
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England Birth Index (2Q1846 Bedminster vol 11); exact place from
1881 census
- Wraxall
All Saints parish registers transcribed at Rootsweb
WorldConnect (Christopher Richards) 1846: Text: Aug 14 George
Edward D'Arcy s o George & Emily Adams, Nai, Surgeon
- British Medical Journal 17 April 1926
p725; Rootsweb
WorldConnect (Christopher Richards)
- Rootsweb
WorldConnect (Christopher Richards)
- British Medical Journal 17 April 1926
p725; The English journal of education p108
edited by George Moody (1863)
- England Marriage
Index (2Q1876 Bedminster vol 5c p1163); exact date and place from
marriage record from Wraxall
All Saints parish registers transcribed at Rootsweb
WorldConnect (Christopher Richards) 1 June 1876: Text: George
D'Arcy Adams, 30 Bac, Doctor of Medicine, West Town, Par
of Backwell (father) George Adams, Surgeon Emily Elizabeth Doyne 22
Spin Wraxall Cottage, (father) Philip Walter Doyne, Clerk in HO
- British Medical Journal 17 April 1926
p725; (The Medical Register p2, 1872); 1881,
1891, 1901 census
- England Death Index
(1Q1926 Stroud vol 6a p462); exact date and place from British Medical Journal 17 April 1926
p725
- British Medical Journal 17 April 1926
p725
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George Basil Doyne Adams
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George Basil Doyne Adams
4 June 1877, in West Town,
Backwell, Somerset,
England
George
Edward D'Arcy Adams
Emily
Elizabeth (Doyne) Adams
St Nicholas College,
Lancing, Sussex, then Christ Church, Oxford where he graduated B.A. in
1899. He was awarded M.B., Bac. Surg. in 1903 and proceeded M.D in
1911. George obtained Dip. Publ. Health in 1914 from the University of
Oxford.
A register of S. Nicholas college, Lancing
p247 (1900)
Adams, George Basil Doyne, born 4 June,
1877, son of G. D'Arcy Adams, Esq., M.D., of London, entered S. H. as
Exhibitioner and Scholar, May, 1891 (Prefect, Sept., 1893; Captain of
School, Sept., 1894), left April, 1896. Subsequently at Ch. Ch.,
Oxford; B.A., 1899. Now at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Address- 1,
Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, W.
Alice Maud Dodgson, of Durban,
Natal
Medical Doctor. In 1901, George was a medical student, working at St
Bartholomew's Hospital, London. George was admitted
as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in December
1903, Lic. R. Coll. Phys. Lond., 1903, M.B., Bac. Surg., 1903, M.D.,
1911, Dip. Publ. Health, 1914, Univ. Oxford
Biography at Wellington Hospital website:
George Basil Doyne ADAMS
MRCS (Eng), LRCP (Lond), MB BCh, MD (Oxon), DPH (Lond)
Born Bedminster, England 1877
MRCS (Eng) 1903, LRCP (Lond) 1903, MB BCh 1903, MD (Oxon) 1911, DPH (Lond) 1914
HP / HS, St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1903
RMO, Victoria Park Hospital for Consumption 1904 - 1905
Assistant Medical Superintendent, King Edward VII Sanitorium, Midhurst, Sussex 1906 - 1908
Medical Superintendent, West Water Sanatorium 1909 - 1911
Tuberculosis Medical Officer, Jagger, Durban, South Africa 1912 - 1914
Tuberculosis Specialist, Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board 1915 - 1916
CO, Sanitary Corps, NZEF 1916 - 1918
Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand), 21 August 1914, p2
PERSONAL MATTERS
Dr. Basil Adams, B.A., M.D., N.N.B.
Ch., Oxon, who was yesterday appointed tuberculosis specialist to the
Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, was for three years medical
superintendent at the West Water Sanatorium, house physician at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, and resident medical officer at Victoria Park
Hospital for Consumption. He was selected by Sir Robert Philip, of
Edinburgh, from all British candidates to take up the post of
tuberculosis medical officer at Jagger, Durban, for a three-years'
engagement, which has just expired. He has had ten years' tuberculosis
experience and work in all its branches. His appointment in Wellington
will date from six months hence, as he wished to proceed from Natal to
England, there to sit for examination for the degree of Doctor of
Public Health.
Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand), 7
April 1915, p1
I,
GEORGE BASIL DOYNE ADAMS, Mem. R. Coll. Surg. Eng., 1903, Lic. R. Coll.
Phys. Lond., 1903, M.B., Bac. Surg., 1903, M.D., 1911, Dip. Publ.
Health, 1914, Univ. Oxford, now residing in Wellington, hereby give
notice that I intend applying on the 6th May next to have my name
placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion of New Zealand; and that
I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the
Registrar of Births and Deaths, at Wellington.
(Signed)
GEORGE BASIL DOYNE ADAMS.
Dated at Wellington, 6th April, 1915.
Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand), 5 March 1916, p8
A BIG APPOINTMENT
FROM WELLINGTON HOSPITAL STAFF
NEW SANITARY CORPS
An offer has been received by Dr. Basil Adams, Tuberculosis
Medical Officer at the Wellington Hospital, to take up the
command of a very important portion of the New Zealand Expeditionary
Forces.
On 24th February Dr. Valintine, Director of Military Hospitals,
wrote to Dr. Adams asking him to call at the office as soonas possible
for the purpose of discussing his taking command of the Sanitary Corps
which the Government proposed to send abroad. "I believe," wrote Dr.
Valintine, "you possess a Diploma of Public Health, and I know that
otherwise you are qualified to take over the command in question if
such should meet with your desires." Two days later, after the
interview, Dr. Valintine wrote offering, by direction of General
Henderson, the position of officer in command of the Sanitary Corps.
Dr, Adams, he said, would be required to go into camp at Awapuni at an
early date.
The matter necessarily involved the granting of a leave of
absence to Dr. Adams from the staff of the Wellington Hospital, and it
was considered at a special meeting of the board this afternoon.
The Chairman (Mr. H. Baldwin) said it was felt that Dr. Adams'
absence meant the shutting up of the whole of the tuberculosis
department of which he was in charge. At the same time, the question
arose as to whether it is not our duty to send the best men possible to
look after those who have gone to the front to fight for the Empire.
Dr. Adams's acceptance of the position meant his absence for twelve
months.
Rev. H. Van Staveren said that when the matter came before the
Public Health Committee he had suggested that six months' leave of
absence would be sufficient. It was found, however, that he must get
leave for twelve months, and that there was no one to take up his work.
That meant that all they had spent on the work in which Dr. Adams had
been engaged would be wasted. He moved that six months' leave of
absence be granted to Dr. Adams. for that period the nurse engaged
could take charge of the cases, but she could not carry on for twelve
months.
Dr. Adams read a brief report of the result of his labours
during the eleven months that he has had charge of the work. He said
that he had spent some time in remedying the shocking state of affairs
that he found on taking up his duties. During that period 541 persons
had been examined, and 228 found to be suffering from tuberculosis. Of
thos cases, 46 are now dead, 53 had left the Wellington district, and
17 were under the care of medical practitioners. Dr. Adams added that
the range of contagion had been absurdly exaggerated, and that the
trouble of dealing with the complaint had been increased through
patients not leaving drink alone.
Dr. Adams was granted leave of absence during the period; two months on full pay.
Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand), 15 January 1917, p12
WEDNESDAY, 17th JANUARY, 1917,
Commencing 1.30 p.m. sharp.
AT THE RESIDENCE,
47 TINAKORI-ROAD, WELLINGTON.
MR. S.
GEORGE NATHAN has been favoured with instructions from Dr. Basil Adams
(who is shortly leaving the Dominion) to sell by public auction the
whole o£ his Household Furniture and Effects, at the residence, 47,
Tinakori-road, as above -
Being the contents of a well-furnished 7-roomed House, comprising-
Axminster carpets, occasional tables and chairs, escritoire, handsome
sideboard, dining table, chairs, linoleums, rugs, bedsteads and
mattresses, duchesse chests, chests of drawers, etc.
Everything to be sold without reserve, as Dr. Adams is leaving the Dominion.
S. GEORGE NATHAN,
Auctioneer
27 January 1958, at The Warren
House, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, aged 80
British Medical Journal 15 February 1958
p412
DEATHS
Adams.-On
January 27, 1958, at The Warren House, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos, George
Basil Doyne Adams, M.D., D.P.H., aged 80.
1881:
1 Clifton Gardens, London, Middlesex
1891: 52 Kingsgate Street,
Winchester, Hampshire
1901: 1 Clifton Gardens,
Paddington, London
1917: 47 Tinakori Road, Wellington, New Zealand Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand), 15 January 1917, p12
1958: The Warren
House, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire (death notice)
Philip Edward Homer
Adams
20 April 1879, in West Town,
Backwell,
Somerset,
England
The Medical Times and Gazette 26 April 1879
p469
BIRTHS
ADAMS.-On April 20, at West
Town, Somerset, the wife of G. D'Arcy
Adams, M.D. of a son.
George
Edward D'Arcy Adams
Emily
Elizabeth (Doyne) Adams
St Nicholas College,
Lancing, Sussex, then Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A.
with 2nd Class Natural Sciuence in 1901. He was later a student at
the London Hospital and admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of
Surgeons on 14 December 1905. Philip took
the diploma in ophthalmology in 1910.
A register of S. Nicholas college, Lancing
p247 (1900)
Adams, Philip Edward Homer, born 20 April,
1879, son of Dr. Adams (see No. 1582), entered S. H. May, 1891, left
July, 1897. Subsequently at the Eye Hospital, Oxford.
Address- 1,
Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, W.
Marjorie Smith on 20 January
1908, in St Michaels, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Marjorie was born
on 1 December 1888, in Summertown, Oxfordshire, the daughter of Alfred Cecil Smith and Linda Sarah Henriette Weber.
Marjorie died on 23 October 1924, in
Oxford, aged 35.
1891: 7 Fairfield,
Manchester, Lancashire
Ophthalmologist. Philip was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons on 14 December 1905 and took
the diploma in ophthalmology in 1910. He was connected with the Oxford
Eye
Hospital, which was founded by his uncle, Robert Walter Doyne, for over
fifty
years, and first came there while still a student in 1896. He was a
clinical assistant in 1904; assistant to the honorary staff in 1905;
appointed a surgeon in 1910; and from 1913 to 1941 he was a honorary
surgeon and Margaret Ogilvie reader in ophthalmology to the University
of Oxford. Since 1912 he had been consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the
Radcliffe Infirmary. Mr. Adams was in private practice in Oxford for
over thirty years and retired in 1941.
The Oxford Ophthalmological Congress was founded by Mr. Adams
among others. He was its Master from 1926 to 1928, and deputy master
from 1929 to 1942. He had been a member of the B.M.A. since 1906, and
was president of the Section of Ophthalmology when the Association met
at Oxford in 1936. He was president of the Ophthalmological Section of
the Royal Society of Medicine in 1944 and in 1945.
Some medical papers written by Philip include:
Two
Cases of Congenital Cataract with Spontaneous Absorption of the Lens
(Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine p413 - 1928)
Notes
on Glaucoma (Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine p31 -
1944)
9 February 1948
British Medical Journal 6 March 1948
p478
P. E. H.
ADAMS, M.B., F.R.C.S.
Philip Edward Homer Adams, who died on Feb.
9 at the age of 68, was a son of the late Dr. G. E. D'Arcy Adams. He
was educated at Lancing and Exeter College, Oxford, and later was a
student at the London Hospital. After graduating he took the F.R.C.S.
in 1905 and the diploma in ophthalmology in 1910. He was connected with
the Oxford Eye Hospital, which was founded by his uncle, Robert Doyne,
for over fifty years, and first came there while still a student in
1896. He was a clinical assistant in 1904; assistant to the honorary
staff in 1905; appointed a surgeon in 1910; and from 1913 to 1941 he
was a honorary surgeon and Margaret Ogilvie reader in ophthalmology to
the University of Oxford. Since 1912 he had been consulting ophthalmic
surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary. Mr. Adams was in private practice
in Oxford for over thirty years and retired in 1941.
The Oxford Ophthalmological Congress was founded by Mr. Adams
among others. He was its Master from 1926 to 1928, and deputy master
from 1929 to 1942. He had been a member of the B.M.A. since 1906, and
was president of the Section of Ophthalmology when the Association met
at Oxford in 1936. He was president of the Ophthalmological Section of
the Royal Society of Medicine in 1944 and in 1945. Since his retirement
in 1941 Mr. Adams had been living at Theberton, Suffolk. He leaves a
widow, a son, and two daughters.
British Medical Journal 7 August 1948
p320
Wills
Mr. Philip Edward Homer Adams, of Theberton, Leiston, Suffolk,
left £52,073.
1881:
1 Clifton Gardens, London, Middlesex
1891: 1 Clifton Gardens,
Paddington, London
1909: 34 St Giles Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire (St
Giles, Oxford)
1948: Theberton, Leiston, Suffolk (obituary)
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