Edward Robert Adair
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Edward Robert Adair, FRHistS (April 26, 1888 – April 12, 1965) was a British and Canadian historian.
Life and career
[edit]Born in London, Adair was the son of Colonel Edward A. Adair, a Confederate States Army officer who declined to take the oath of amnesty after the American Civil War and went into exile. He was educated at London University and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he won the Gladstone Memorial Prize. Rejected for military service during the First World War for medical reasons, he became a senior history master at Felsted School.[citation needed]
He became a senior lecturer in 1919 at University College, London, and went to McGill University in 1925 as associate professor, eventually becoming chairman of the History Department from 1942 to 1947. He retired from McGill University in 1954 and died in Austin, Texas a year later.[citation needed]
A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he was President of the Canadian Historical Association for 1935–1936.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- "Notes and Comments". The Canadian Historical Review. 46 (3): 296–300. September 1965.
- 1888 births
- 1965 deaths
- British people of American descent
- Canadian people of American descent
- Alumni of the University of London
- Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
- British schoolteachers
- Academics of University College London
- Academic staff of McGill University
- Presidents of the Canadian Historical Association
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- 20th-century British historians
- 20th-century American historians
- Historians of Canada
- Historians of France
- British emigrants to Canada