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Alexander Adam was born near Forres, in Moray.
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Alexander Adam was born near Forres, in Moray.
In 1757 he went to Edinburgh, where he studied at the university.
From his earliest years he showed uncommon diligence and perseverance in classical studies, notwithstanding many difficulties and privations. His reputation as a classical scholar secured him a post as assistant at Watson"s Hospital and the headmastership in 1761. In 1764 he became private tutor to Alexander Kincaid, afterwards Lord Provost of Edinburgh, by whose influence he was appointed in 1768 to the rectorship of the High School on the retirement of Mr Matheson, whose substitute he had been for some time before.
From this period he devoted himself entirely to the duties of his office and to the preparation of his numerous works on classical literature.
He succeeded in introducing the study of Greek into the curriculum of the school, notwithstanding the opposition of the university headed by Principal William Robertson. In 1780 the University of Edinburgh conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
He died after an illness of five days, during which he occasionally imagined himself still at work, his last words being, "lieutenant grows dark, boys, you may go". Adam married first, in 1775, Agnes Munro, whose father was minister of Kinloss.
And second, in 1780, Jean Cosser, a daughter of the controller of excise in Edinburgh.
Adam"s daughter Agnes married the chemist William Prout.
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