John Adams (provost)

John Adams D.D. (1662—1720), provost of King's College, Cambridge, was born in London, and educated at Cambridge, where he was admitted to King's College in 1678; took the degree of B.A. 1682, and M.A. 1686. He afterwards travelled into Spain, Italy, France, and Ireland; and in 1687 was presented by the Lord Chancellor Jeffries to the living of Hickam in Leicestershire. In London, he was lecturer of St. Clement's; rector of St. Alban's Woodstreet, in the gift of Eton College; and Rector of St. Bartholomew, presented by Lord Harcourt, the chancellor. He was also a prebendary of Canterbury, chaplain in ordinary to Queen Anne, and in 1708, canon of Windsor. In 1711 he was presented to the living of Hornsey, by Compton, Bishop of London; and in the following year elected provost of King's College, which he held until his death in 1719. He was considered as an eloquent preacher, and often employed on public occasions. Fifteen of his sermons were printed from 1695 to 1712.Chalmers, Alexander. "The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time". new ed. rev. and enl. London: Nichols [et al.] , 1812-1817. 32 vols.]

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