{{Short description|British diplomat (1888–1925)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Eric Forbes Adam | fullname = Eric Graham Forbes Adam | birth_date = {{birth date|1888|10|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Malabar Hill, Bombay, Maharashtra, India | death_date = {{death date and age|1925|07|07|1888|10|12|df=y}} | death_place = Istanbul, Turkey | image = İstanbul 6085.jpg | caption = Eric Forbes Adam's grave in Istanbul | batting = | bowling = | role = Batsman | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1911 | type1 = FC | onetype1 = true | debutdate1 = 11 June | debutyear1 = 1911 | debutfor1 = Camb. Uni. | debutagainst1 = Yorks | columns = 1 | hidedeliveries = true | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 27 | bat avg1 = 13.50 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 17 | catches/stumpings1 = 1/0 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2026/2026417/2026417.html CricketArchive | date = 28 May | year = 2022 }} '''Eric Graham Forbes Adam''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG}} (3 October 1888 – 7 July 1925) was a British diplomat and First Secretary to the Foreign Office.
Adam was born in Malabar Hill, Bombay, India, the second son of Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Baronet.<ref name="Burke's"/> His older brother was General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet.<ref name="Burke's"/> He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.
While at Cambridge, Adam played one first-class cricket match for Cambridge University against Yorkshire on 1–3 June 1911 at Fenner's. He batted at number 6 in Cambridge's first innings, scoring 10 before being caught by Arthur Dolphin off the bowling of Wilfred Rhodes. During Yorkshire's first innings he gained some measure of revenge on Rhodes by catching him for 1 off the bowling of John Frederick Ireland – the only catch of his first-class career. In Cambridge's second innings he opened the batting with David Collins, scoring 17 before being bowled by Alonzo Drake.<ref name="Cricket Archive"/> Cambridge won the match by 69 runs.
Adam married Agatha Perrin, daughter of R.W. Macan in 1918; their son was Sir Christopher Adam, 3rd Baronet (1920–2009).<ref name="Burke's"/> Adam served as 3rd Secretary in the British Peace Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; the London Conference of 1920 and the San Remo Conference. He was First Secretary in the British Delegation to the Lausanne Conference of 1922–1923.
Adam was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1923.<ref name="CMG"/>
Adam died in Istanbul in 1925, aged 36,<ref name="death notice"/> and is buried in Haydarpaşa Cemetery in Istanbul.
== References ==
<references> <ref name="Burke's">{{Cite web |url=http://www.burkespeerage.com/FamilyHomepage.aspx?FID=4832 |title=Burke's Peerage – Preview Family Record |access-date=28 December 2012 |archive-date=1 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801080636/http://www.burkespeerage.com/FamilyHomepage.aspx?FID=4832 |url-status=dead }}</ref> <ref name="CMG">{{London Gazette |issue=32782 |supp=y |page=5 |date=29 December 1922}}</ref> <ref name="Cricket Archive">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2026/2026417/2026417.html|title=Eric Forbes Adam|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=9 September 2017|archive-date=23 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123052756/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29465/29465.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name="death notice">{{London Gazette |issue=33094 |page=6814 |date=20 October 1925}}</ref> </references>
*[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U192596 ADAM, Eric Graham Forbes], ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 28 Dec 2012 * ''The Times'', Thursday, 9 Jul 1925; pg. 13; Issue 44009; col E Mr. E. Forbes Adam. Death in Constantinople. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
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