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Henry Adamson (1581 - 1637)
Poet, educator, historian, and chorographer. He was appointed Precentor and singing master of the Sang School (a school for teaching church music) in March 1618 and reader of the Kirk of Perth on 3 May 1620. In 1620, he married Katherine, daughter of William and Helen Buchanan. By March 1626, he had been appointed clerk of the presbytery of Perth. What we know about Adamson derives mostly from his 18th-century editor James Cant. Relying on local oral history for his biographical information, Cant writes that Adamson "was educated for the pulpit, and appears to have been a gentleman of considerable abilities, a good classical scholar, he wrote some Latin poems above mediocrity. His relations were of considerable rank among the citizens of Perth." Having received a manuscript copy of The Muses Threnodie, William Drummond of Hawthornden (in a letter dated 12 July 1637), urged Adamson to publish the work. Adamson died before he could do so, but his brother, John Adamson, brought the work into print. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/142 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Adamson Roles: Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source)Relevant locations: Residence at Perth
Subject of discourse or work of art Perth
People linked to person: Henry Adamson was a son of James Adamson (-fl. 1617)
Henry Adamson was a brother of John Adamson (1576-1653)
Henry Adamson was a son of Margaret Anderson (-)
Henry Adamson was a husband of Katherine Buchanan (-fl. 1620)
Henry Adamson was a friend of James Gall (-c. 1620)
Henry Adamson was a friend of George Ruthven (1546-1638)
Patrick Adamson (1537-1592) was a uncle of Henry Adamson