Robert Adair (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert Adair (politician)

English diplomat

Date of Birth: 24-May-1763

Date of Death: 03-Oct-1855

Profession: politician, diplomat

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Robert Adair (politician)

  • Sir Robert Adair GCB (24 May 1763 – 3 October 1855) was a distinguished British diplomat, and frequently employed on the most important diplomatic missions. He was the son of Robert Adair, sergeant-surgeon to George III, and Lady Caroline Keppel, daughter of Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle.
  • He was educated at Westminster School and the University of Göttingen, and then studied law at Lincolns Inn, but hardly practised as a barrister. He hoped to gain office as Under-secretary of State to Charles James Fox, but he was in opposition.
  • Following the French Revolution, he travelled in Europe, visiting Berlin, Vienna, and St Petersburg to study the effects of the revolution and equip himself for a diplomatic career. He became Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Appleby (1799–1802) and Camelford (1802–12). In 1805, he made a disastrous marriage to Angélique Gabrielle, daughter of the marquis de l'Escuyer d'Hazincourt (known as ‘Talleyrand's spy’), but this kept him out of office when Fox returned to government.
  • Instead Fox sent him to Vienna.
  • In June 1808, George Canning transferred him to Constantinople.
  • He was created a KCB in that year for his services there.
  • He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1828. He was employed in Belgium from 1831 to 1835, where he succeeded in preventing a war between Belgium and The Netherlands.
  • This exploit won for him the rank of GCB and a pension of £2000 per year from 1831, and also the grand'cross of the Belgian order of Leopold in 1835.
  • He then visited Prussia.
  • In the 1840s, he published memoirs of his diplomatic activities in the 1800s.

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