Reverend Henry Cadwallader Adams (4 November 1817 – 17 October 1899) was a 19th-century English

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and writer of

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. He was the grandson of Simon Adams of

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. He was educated at

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(1835) and

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(1836), becoming a fellow of Magdalen in 1843. After some time as a Commoner Tutor at Winchester, in 1855 he became chaplain of Bromley College, an almshouse for the widows of clergy.

Works

Fiction

Adams wrote children's novels, specialising in tales of

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Public School life and adventures in far-flung parts of Empire. His novels included: * ''The Cherry-stones, or Charlton School'' (1851) * ''Who Did It?, or Holmwood Priory. A Schoolboy's Tale'' (1852) * ''Sivan the Sleeper'' (1857) * ''Schoolboy Honour; a tale of Halminster College'' (1861) * ''The Indian Boy'' (1865) * ''Balderscourt, or Holiday Tales'' (1866) * ''Falconshurst; or, Birthday tales'' (1869) * ''Hair-breadth escapes, or, The adventures of three boys in South Africa'' London: Griffith & Farran (1876) * ''The Boy Cavaliers, or The Siege of Clidesford'' (1878) * ''The Winborough Boys, or Ellerslie Park'' (1879) * ''Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand'' London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh (1887) * ''Travellers' Tales: a book of marvels'' (1883) * ''Wroxby College, Or, the Luscombe Prize: A Tale of Boy Life'' * ''School and University; Or, Dolph Woodward'' * ''The Mystery of Beechey Grange Or the Missing Host: A Tale for Boys'' * ''College days at Oxford, or, Wilton of Cuthbert's'' (1887) * ''The Lost Rifle, or, Schoolboy Faction'' * ''Schooldays at Kingscourt''

School textbooks

* ''A New Greek Delectus'', London, 3rd edition (1855) * ''Greek Exercises, Adapted to Adams's Greek Delectus, and Wordsworth's Greek Grammar'' (1856) * ''A New Latin Delectus: Adapted to the Arrangement of the Eton, and Edward the Sixth's Latin Grammars'' (1857) * ''Latin Exercises, Adapted to the Arrangement of the Eton and Edward VI's Grammars, and Adams's Latin Delectus'' * ''Adams's Principia Graeca, Being a Grammar and Delectus Combined'' (1871)

Religious

* ''The Greek text of the Gospels: with prolegomena, notes and references, for the use of schools and colleges'' (1886) * ''The Judges of Israel, or Tales for Sunday Reading'' * ''Sunday Evenings at Home'' (1880) * ''Sundays at Encombe'' * ''The History of the Jews from the war with Rome to the present time'' (1887)

Poetry

* ''The twelve foundations and other poems'' (1859)

Other

* ''Wykehamica: A History of Winchester College and Commoners'': Oxford, London and Winchester (1878)

References

* ''Victorian Novels of Public School Life'' Christopher Stray (2003) * Wainewright, John Bannerman (ed).
Winchester College 1836–1906: A Register
'. P. and G. Wells, 1907. * Bloxam, J. R., ''A Register of the Presidents, Fellows, Demies, Instructors in Grammar and in Music, Chaplains, Clerks, Choristers, and Other Members of Saint Mary Magdalen College in the University of Oxford: The demies. v. 1-4; 1482-1857'' (1873) *

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(1900) vol 18 p 21 *

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1906 p 285

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