Adam Blackwood
Adam Blackwood may refer to: * Adam Blackwood (writer) (1539–1613), Scottish author and apologist for Mary, Queen of Scots * Adam Blackwood (actor) Adam Blackwood (born 14 July 1959) is an English actor. Early life Blackwood was born in Chichester, West Sussex, the only son of Rona (née Archer) and John Blackwood. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Career Blackwood pla ...

Adam Blackwood (writer)
Adam Blackwood (1539–1613) was a Scottish author and apologist for Mary, Queen of Scots. Early life He was born in 1539 in Dunfermline, Scotland, to William Blackwood and Helen Reid. The great-nephew of Robert Reid, Bishop of Orkney (1541-1558), he helped with Adam’s education at the University of Paris. His parents had deceased. Career Adam was orphaned at a young age and his education was sponsored by his great uncle, Robert Reid (bishop), Robert Reid, Bishop of Orkney. Blackwood went to the University of Paris and then on to University of Toulouse, Toulouse to study civil law, with the direct patronage of Mary, Queen of Scots then in the French Court. In 1567-8 he was a rector of the University of Paris. Blackwood became a practicing lawyer in the ''Parlement'' at Poitiers, an appointment in the gift of Mary, awarded in 1579 after the publication of his first polemic, the ''De Conjunctione Religionis et Imperii''. According to his ''Histoire'' (1589), Blackwood visited ...
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