Eric Forbes Adam

Who is Eric Forbes Adam?

Eric Graham Forbes Adam CMG 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. His older brother was General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at Eton and Kings College, Cambridge.

While at Cambridge he 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. Cambridge won the match by 69 runs.

He married Agatha Perrin, daughter of R.W. Macan in 1918; their son was Sir Christopher Eric Forbes Adam, 3rd Baronet.

He was 3rd Secretary in 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.