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Dr Alexander Adam

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Dr Alexander Adam

Birth
Death
15 Jan 1810 (aged 68)
Burial
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland Add to Map
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"Memoriae sacrum Alexandri Adam, florentissimae scholae regiae Edinesis, per annos xl. et amplius rectoris indefessi, meritissimi; viro ingenio, doctrina, industria, literarum suabitate penitus imbuti insignis, quas ipse et praecpis, et exemplo, mira felicitate discipulis suis commendavit. Natus viii. cal julii, 1741, obiit xv. januarii,1810; eodem die quo filius ejus natu maximus efferebatur."

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Translated:
"Sacred to the memory of Alexander, the man, the king's Edinesis a flourishing school, through the years, XL., And more, of the rector of the unwearying meritissimi; to the men of capacity, education, energy, and imbued with a remarkable deep-suabitate of letters, which he and his praecpis, and by the example, the Jews had the good fortune of his disciples. Love VIII. Cal of July, 1741, died in the XV. of January, 1810; the same day that his son by birth of a great man was being carried out. "
"Memoriae sacrum Alexandri Adam, florentissimae scholae regiae Edinesis, per annos xl. et amplius rectoris indefessi, meritissimi; viro ingenio, doctrina, industria, literarum suabitate penitus imbuti insignis, quas ipse et praecpis, et exemplo, mira felicitate discipulis suis commendavit. Natus viii. cal julii, 1741, obiit xv. januarii,1810; eodem die quo filius ejus natu maximus efferebatur."

(the date of his birth was miss inscribed)

Translated:
"Sacred to the memory of Alexander, the man, the king's Edinesis a flourishing school, through the years, XL., And more, of the rector of the unwearying meritissimi; to the men of capacity, education, energy, and imbued with a remarkable deep-suabitate of letters, which he and his praecpis, and by the example, the Jews had the good fortune of his disciples. Love VIII. Cal of July, 1741, died in the XV. of January, 1810; the same day that his son by birth of a great man was being carried out. "

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