Background
Adams was born on board the Rotterdam packet, in which his mother was travelling to England.
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Robert Powys Adams
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He was for a time private secretary to the Honorary Sidney Herbert, the popular War Minister. He had a short career in the Royal Navy, and studied law for a time.
Adams arrived in New South Wales on 21 September 1851, changing his surname from Herbert to Adams on arrival.
He engaged in commercial and pastoral pursuits. He also worked as a journalist for the Empire and the Sydney Morning Herald.
His death notice reads:.
Politics
In the interval, between 1860 and 1880, he wrote a series of articles on "Australian Finance and Resource" for the English press and magazines, also for the colonial press, numerous political sketches, reviews, and essays, also two poems, the "Psalm of Time" and "Song of the Stars" (the latter subject suggested to him by the late Prince Albert).
Membership
He was a member of all the New South Wales Exhibition Commissions (except one), including that for Chicago.
