What is Donald Adamson?
[[File:Donald Adamson 2013 06 25 025.jpg|thumb|Dr. Donald Adamson giving an after-dinner speech at [[:en:Worshipful Company of Skinners|Skinners' Hall]]]] '''Donald Adamson''' (born 30 March 1939 at Culcheth, [[Lancashire]]) is a [[British]] [[historian]], [[Philosopher|philosophical writer]] and [[Literature|literary critic]]. He is the author of ''[[Blaise Pascal]]: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God'' (1995), a book detailing the concept of the existence of [[God]] and a study of Pascal’s ''Wager''.<ref>Donald Adamson, ''Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist, and Thinker about God'', 1995, pp. 143-160.</ref> Adamson has written on [[France|French]] history, and histories of the [[City of London]],<ref>Donald Adamson, ''The Curriers' Company: A Modern History'', 2000.</ref> a [[Duke|ducal]] family,<ref>Donald Adamson, ''The House of Nell Gwyn: The Fortunes of the Beauclerk Family, 1670-1974'', 1974.</ref> [[travel]],<ref>''Rides Round Britain: The Travel Journals of John Byng'', 1996.</ref> [[finance]],<ref>'Child's Bank and Oxford University in the Eighteenth Century', ''The Three Banks Review'', December 1982, pp. 45-52.</ref> and [[art]]. He also wrote about the [[novels]] of [[Honoré de Balzac]].<ref>e.g., Donald Adamson, ''Balzac: Illusions perdues'', 1981.</ref> He has translated many [[short story|short stories]] of [[Guy de Maupassant]]<ref>Guy de Maupassant, ''Bed 29 and Other Stories'', 1993.</ref> into [[English language|English]]. Adamson aids the cause of [[museum]]s and [[libraries]] in the [[United Kingdom|UK]].<ref>Hansard, Expenditure Committee, Third Report, Session 1977-78, pp. 128-136, 30 November 1977.</ref> From 1983 to 1992 he served as a Justice of the Peace for the [[City of London]]. Adamson studied at the [[University of Oxford]]. He taught at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, as well as [[Paris]] and London Universities. He also is a member of a [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge College]] where he conducts [[research]]. 2012-13 Donald Adamson was Master of the Curr