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===[[name::William]] [[name::ADAM]] [[date of birth::1689]]-[[date of death::1748]]===

====Biographical Note====
The son of [[family::John Adam]], builder and merchant, and of his wife, [[family::Helen Cranstoun|Helen]], daughter of the third Lord Cranstoun, William Adam was trained as a mason. He had an extensive career as a builder, entrepreneur and [[occupation::architect]], mainly in Scotland.
From the 1720s on he designed mansions for a number of wealthy and aristocratic patrons.

His three sons [[crossreference::John Adam]], [[crossreference::Robert Adam]] and [[crossreference::James Adam]] continued in their father's footsteps. 

====Books====
Adam's library at [[location::Blair Adam]] is recorded as having had a range of over 140 [[subject::architecture|architectural]] works from Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain.

====Sources====
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*Macaulay, James. [https://www-oxforddnb-com.chain.kent.ac.uk/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-107 "Adam, William (bap. 1689, d. 1748), builder and architect."] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
*Alistair Rowan, “William Adam’s Library.” ''Architectural Heritage 1'', no. 1 (November 1, 1990): 8–33.

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