AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
JP; elder son of Donald Adamson, farmer
(d. 1982), of
Oak Villa Farm (later of The Homestead), Lymm, Cheshire, and of Hannah Mary
(d. 1994), elder
daughter of William Booth, of Oughtrington, Lymm; b. Glaziers Lane Farm, Culcheth, Lancashire
(now Cheshire) 30 March 1939. Educator, historian and literary critic.
educ: Manchester
GS 1949-1956; Magdalen College, Oxford, 1956-1959: BA 1959 (MA 1963),
BLitt 1962 (MLitt 1979), DPhil 1971. Heath Harrison Travelling
Scholar (Oxford University), 1958; Zaharoff Travelling Scholar
(Oxford University), 1959-1960. University of Paris, 1960-1961.
family:
m. 24 September
1966 Helen Freda, only daughter of Frederick Percival Griffiths, TD
(d. 1970), of
Mossley Hill, Liverpool: 2 sons (Richard Henry Egerton,
b. 17 January
1970; John Daniel, b. 21 April 1971). career: Manchester GS,
1962-1964; Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, 1964-1965; J.Walter
Thompson, London, 1965-1967; St George's School, Gravesend, Kent,
1968; Goldsmiths' College, London, 1969-1989. Recognized Teacher of
the University of London: Faculty of Arts, 1971-1989; Faculty of
Education, 1972-1989; chm Bd of Examiners 1983-1986. Lord of the manor of Dodmore. Freeman of the
City of London, 1969; liveryman, Worshipful Company of Haberdashers,
1976; liveryman, Worshipful Company of Curriers, 1991; JP, City of London, 1983-1992; JP, Cornwall, 1993-2009; chevalier, Ordre des Palmes académiques, 1986; visiting fellow, Wolfson
College, Cambridge, 1989-1990, and ex-visiting fellow thereafter. Assistant director of ceremonies, Order of St John:
Grand Priory 1995-1999, Priory of England and the Islands 1999-2007, deputy
director 2007-2008
(ceremonial director, Essex, 1992-2010); OStJ 1985, CStJ 1992, KJStJ
1998. FSA 1979, FRSL 1983, FCIL 1989, FRHistS 2007. Chairman, Bow Group Research
Committee on Museums and Libraries policy, 1969-1971; founder and
secretary, Bow Group Standing Committee on the Arts, 1975-1980;
submitted written and oral evidence to the Parliamentary Select
Committee on the National Land Fund, 1977; judge, Museum of the Year
Awards, 1979-1983; member, Executive Committee, National Heritage,
1980-1992. Chevalier du Tastevin 2005. publications: The Genesis of Le Cousin Pons, 1966;
The Black Sheep
(trans. Balzac's La
Rabouilleuse), 1970; Dusty Heritage, 1971; T.S. Eliot: A Memoir (ed.),
1971; The House of Nell Gwyn: The Fortunes
of the Beauclerk
Family, 1670-1974 (jntly), 1974;
Ursule Mirouët (trans. Balzac), 1976; A
Rescue Policy
for Museums, 1980; Balzac: Illusions Perdues, 1981;
Les Romantiques français devant
la peinture
espagnole, 1988 (republished as
Interprètes français de la
peinture espagnole à
l'époque romantique, 1990); presented Old
Goriot in Everyman series, 1991;
Bed 29 & Other Stories: An Anthology of 26 of Maupassant's Short Stories, 1993;
Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist, and Thinker
about God, 1995, 2001; Rides Round Britain: The Travel Journals of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington
(ed.), 1996; The Curriers' Company: A
Modern History, 2000; Balzac and the
Tradition of the European Novel (online 2001); contributor to Wikipedia and
author of articles on literary, historical and political subjects. recreations: swimming, travel, collecting, genealogy.
clubs: Reform, National Liberal, Beefsteak, City Livery. telephone: 07747 733931, 07890 824213.
e-mail addresses: aimsworthy@tesco.net,
aimsworthy@aol.com tartan: Mackintosh.
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