Adams, William Pitt
b. 1804-12-11
d. 1852-09-01
William Pitt Adams, born on 11 December 1804, was Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul General to Peru; Adams expressed that British subjects in Peru showed interest in settlement on Vancouver Island in 1849, however he never followed through with promoting this settlement due to a lack of information provided to him by the Hudson's Bay Company.1
In 1817, Adams married Georgiana-Emily Lukin with whom he had one daughter.2 Adams died in Lima, Peru on 1 September 1852.3
  • 1. Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1, 4.
  • 2. Ibid.
  • 3. University of Oxford, Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, 8.
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The Colonial Despatches Team. Adams, William Pitt. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/adams_wp.html.

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