Hugh Adair

Who was Hugh Adair?

Sir Hugh Edward Adair, 3rd Baronet was a British Liberal Party politician who served from 1847 to 1874 as a Member of Parliament for Ipswich in Suffolk.

He was the second son of Sir Robert Shafto Adair, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Elizabeth Maria Strode. He married Harriet Camilla Adair, daughter of Alexander Adair, on 10 July 1856. They had three sons, the eldest of whom lived for only ten years.

Adair was elected at the 1847 general election as one of the two MPs for Ipswich, and held the seat until he stood down from the House of Commons at the 1874 general election.

He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1886, on the death of his elder brother Robert. On his death in 1902, aged 86, his second son Frederick succeeded to the baronetcy, and after Frederick's death in 1915 the title was inherited by Hugh's third son, Robert.