James Adair ( c 1743 - 1798 )

Birth: c 1743 Death: 21 July 1798 Burial: Bunhill Fields burying-ground Profession: Barrister Education: BA (1764) MA (1767) Peterhouse, Cambridge Career: Called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn; Counsel in the trial of the printers of "Junius's letters" (1771); MP for Cockermouth (1775-1780); Recorder of London (1779-1789); King's Sergeant; joined London Volunteers force and died returning from a shooting exercise (1798) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 10/04/1788.