Inscription
John Adam, eldest son of the Lord Chief Commissioner, was born 4th May, 1779. In June he sailed for Bengal, in the Civil Service of the East India Company. He passed through various offices of great trust and labour, and in 1819 was placed in the Supreme Council. The usual time of holding that station being completed, he was reappointed, and from January to August, 1823, he acted as Governor-General, a period which required decision, firmness, and energy. His character and services have been extolled by the public voice of India. His extensive knowledge, his elevated views, his indefatigable zeal, his exemplary integrity, and the wisdom of his measures, have been publicly recorded by the Supreme Council of Bengal, and by those who preside over the affairs of India in England. Ill-health --- the effect of climate, fatigue, and anxiety --- compelled him, in March, 1825, to embark for England. His surviving parent and family expected to have seen in ripened manhood what early youth had promised --- to have beheld his benign countenance, to have enjoyed his enlightened discourse, to have been soothed by his warm affection, to have witnessed his active benevolence; but he died on the 4th of June, 1825, on his voyage home, and his remains were committed to the ocean.
This stone is inscribed to his private virtue. His public services will be recorded in the history of British India. Put up by his father in July, 1827.
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