Education
Street John"s College.
Street John"s College.
Adams was sometime a fellow of Saint John"s College, Cambridge, where he took his degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts respectively in 1719 and 1735. Between these two dates he published the work by which he is best known, entitled The Tragedies of Sophocles, translated from the Greek. With Notes Historical, Moral, and Critical, London, 1729.
In addition to his translation of Sophocles, Adams wrote what David Elisha Davy called The Heathen Martyr, and what the Gentleman"s Magazine for October 1746 registered amongst the books and pamphlets published during that month as The Life of Socrates: an Historical Tragedy, London, 1746.
lieutenant is not unlikely that Adams was the author of An Exposition of some Articles of Religion, which strike at the Tenets of the Arians and Socinians. Likewise at the Infidels, Romanists, Lutherans, and Calvinists.
In several Sermons and Dissertations, London, 1752. In a Latin dedication to Doctor Thomas Sherlock, bishop of London, the author of this work describes himself as having exercised his sacred office (sacro munere) in that diocese for a period of over twenty years.
lieutenant is equally possible further to cr him with another volume, the identity of whose authorship with that of the Exposition is generally accepted, by George Adams, Master of Arts entitled A System of Divinity, Ecclesiastical History, and Morality.
Collected from the Writings of Authors of various Nations and Languages, and from the noblest Doctors of the Christian Church, London, 1768. Adams may have been the same with the Review George Adams who was preferred to the prebend of Seaford on 24 August 1736, and was transferred to that of Wittering on 28 October following, both in the cathedral church of Chichester, and who vacated the latter in 1751-1752.
Of course the System of Divinity may have been of posthumous publication.
But if the foregoing surmises be correct, Adams probably died not before 1768, the year of the issue of his latest work, when he was about seventy years of age.