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Montague Rhodes Adam OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 - 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. Adam, was an English creator, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College or university, Cambridge (1905-1918), and of Eton College or university (1918-1936). He is best remembered for his ghost reports, which are thought to be among the best in the genre. Adam redefined the ghost tale for the new century by abandoning lots of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary configurations. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to indicate his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he's known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". Adam was born in Goodnestone Parsonage, near Dover in Kent, England, although his parents got organizations with Aldeburgh in Suffolk. From age three (1865) until 1909 his home, if not always his home, was at the Rectory in Great Livermere, Suffolk. This got also been the childhood home of another eminent Suffolk antiquary, "Honest Tom" Martin (1696-1771) "of Palgrave." Several of his ghost reports are occur Suffolk, including "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" (Felixstowe), "A Caution to the Interested" (Aldeburgh), "Rats" and "A Vignette" (Great Livermere). He lived for quite some time, first as an undergraduate, then as a don and provost, at King's College or university, Cambridge, where he was also an associate of the Pitt Golf club. The college or university provides settings for many of his stories. Apart from middle ages subjects, James analyzed the classics and came out very successfully in a staging of Aristophanes' play The Birds, with music by Hubert Parry. His capacity as an acting professional was also visible when he read his new ghost reports to friends at Christmas time. In September 1873 he appeared as a boarder at Temple Grove College, one of the leading kids' preparatory schools of the day. James is best known for his ghost reports, but his are a medievalist scholar was prodigious and remains highly well known in scholarly circles. Indeed, the success of his reports was founded on his antiquarian talents and knowledge. His finding of any manuscript fragment led to excavations in the ruins of the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, Western Suffolk, in 1902, in which the graves of several twelfth-century abbots detailed by Jocelyn de Brakelond (a modern chronicler) were rediscovered, having been lost since the Dissolution. His 1917 model of the Latin Lives of Saint Aethelberht, ruler and martyr (English Historical Review 32), remains authoritative. He catalogued lots of the manuscript libraries of the Cambridge schools. Among his other scholarly works, he wrote The Apocalypse in Fine art, which placed illuminated Apocalypse manuscripts into people. He also translated the brand new Testament Apocrypha and contributed to the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903). His capacity to wear his learning lightly is visible in his Suffolk and Norfolk (Dent, 1930), in which a lot of knowledge is offered in a popular and accessible form, and in Abbeys (Great Western Railway, 1925). Adam also achieved a great deal during his directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (1893-1908). He were able to secure a large variety of important paintings and manuscripts, including significant portraits by Titian. Adam was Provost of Eton College or university from 1918 to 1936. He passed away in 1936 and was buried in Eton town cemetery.
