David Laird Adams

Prof David Laird Adams
The grave of David Laird Adams, Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh

Prof David Laird Adams DD (1837–1892) was a Scottish academic who was professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at the University of Edinburgh.


Life

He studied arts and divinity at the University of Edinburgh, receiving a prize for Biblical criticism.[1]

In 1870 he was living in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, and is thought to have been teaching classics at Dollar Academy.[2]

A Church of Scotland minister at Monimail, Fife 1875.[3]

In 1880 he replaced Prof David Liston as professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at the University of Edinburgh.[4] Adams introduced Syriac and Arabic to the syllabus. He was replaced by Prof John Dobie.[5]

He died at Primrose Villa, Victoria Park, in Trinity, Edinburgh, in 1892.[6] He is buried in the south-east section of Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh.

Family

He was married to Sarah Emma Child Sneezum (1842–1899).

Their daughter was Euphemia Laird Adams (born 1870).

Artistic recognition

A sketch of Prof Adams by William Brassey Hole is held by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Edinburgh University Calendar 1869-70
  2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYRK-HR7
  3. ↑ Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: Hew Scott
  4. ↑ http://ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk/index.php/Hebrew
  5. ↑ Disruption to Diversity: David W Wright
  6. ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1891-2
  7. ↑ https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/91893/professor-david-laird-adams-1837-after-1884-professor-hebrew-and-oriental-languages-edinburgh
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