Thursday 18 July 2013
211 Sir Hugh Adair
Constituency : Ipswich 1847-74
Sir Hugh was the son of a Catholic baronet. He was educated at Oxford and became a barrister. The Adairs were also substantial Irish landlords. His brother had been MP for Cambridge up to 1857.
When Hugh spoke in Parliament it was usually on matters relating to the gas industry.
Hugh stood down in 1974. He succeeded his brother in the baronetcy in 1886. He employed the infamous Captain Boycott as his land agent in East Anglia and paid for his headstone in 1897.
He died in 1902 aged 86.
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