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Andrew Leith Adams was born on the 21th of March 1827, in Banchory, United Kingdom. Adams was the son of Francis Adams (1796–1861), a surgeon and Espeth Shaw.
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Andrew Leith Adams was born on the 21th of March 1827, in Banchory, United Kingdom. Adams was the son of Francis Adams (1796–1861), a surgeon and Espeth Shaw.
He studied medicine.
Andrew Leith Adams joined army as an physician in 1848, serving in the 22nd Infantry Regiment in India. Between 1849-1854 he was posted in Dagshai, Rawalpindi and Peshawar. He also served in Kashmir, Egypt, Malta (1861–1868), Gibraltar and Canada.
He spent his spare time studying the natural history of these countries. He was among the first to study the interior of Ladakh and wrote about it in "The Birds of Cashmere and Ladakh". The orange bullfinch (Pyrrhula aurantiaca) was discovered by him as also the first breeding site of brown-headed gulls (Larus brunnicephalus) in the lakes of the Tibetan plateau.
After his retirement from the army in 1873, Adams was professor of natural history at Trinity College, Dublin and Queen's College, Cork.
He died of a pulmonary haemorrhage on 29 July 1883 at Rushbrook Villa (Cork).
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He was elected a fellow of the Geographical Society in 1870 a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1872, and Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873.
He married Bertha Jane Grundy on 26 October 1859, who later became famous as a novelist. He was the father of the writer Francis Adams.
