Edward Robert Adair
Edward Robert Adair, FRHistS (April 26, 1888 – April 12, 1965) was a British and Canadian historian. Life and career
Born in London, Adair was the son of Colonel Edward A. Adair, a Confederate States Army officer who declined to take the oath of amnesty after the American Civil War and went into exile. He was educated at London University and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he won the Gladstone Memorial Prize. Rejected for military service during the First World War for medical reasons, he became a senior history master at Felsted School. He became a senior lecturer in 1919 at University College, London, and went to McGill University in 1925 as associate professor, eventually becoming chairman of the History Department from 1942 to 1947. He retired from McGill University in 1954 and died in Austin, Texas a year later. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he was President of the Canadian Historical Association for 1935–1936. References

 

1888 births
1965 deaths
British people of American descent
Canadian people of American descent
Alumni of the University of London
Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
British schoolteachers
Academics of University College London
Academic staff of McGill University
Presidents of the Canadian Historical Association
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
20th-century British historians
20th-century American historians
Historians of Canada
Historians of France
British emigrants to Canada