William Patrick Adam PC (1823 - 24 May 1881) was a British Liberal politician. Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. Year 1823 ( MDCCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Year 1881 ( MDCCCLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s and a third party

Educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was called to the bar in 1849. Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is a Co-educational Boarding school and one of the oldest public schools Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The Call to the Bar is a legal Term of art in most Common law jurisdictions He served as secretary to Lord Elphinstone from 1853-8, while he was Governor of Bombay. John Elphinstone 13th Lord Elphinstone and 1st Baron Elphinstone GCB GCH PC ( 23 June 1807 &ndash 19 July 1860 The city of Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay was attained by the British East India Company in 1664 He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Clackmannan and Kinross from 1859-80, and served in Government as Lord of the Treasury from 1865-66 and from 1868-73, Paymaster General from 1873 to 1874 and First Commissioner of Works from 1873 to 1874 and from 1880 to 1881. Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire were constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and In the United Kingdom, there are at least six Lords of the Treasury who serve concurrently HM Paymaster General is a ministerial position in the United Kingdom. The First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings was a Position within the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland He was Liberal whip from 1874-80.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1873 and was Governor of Madras from 1880-81. Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. 1755&ndash1763 George Pigot 1st Baron Pigot 1763&ndash1767 Sir Robert Palk 1st Baronet 1780&ndash1781 Charles Smith