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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 publisher, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-1918), and of Eton College (1918-1936). He is best appreciated for his ghost experiences, which are thought to be among the best in the genre. Adam redefined the ghost storyline for the new century by abandoning lots of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more natural contemporary options. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reveal his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". Adam was created in Goodnestone Parsonage, near Dover in Kent, Great britain, although his parents possessed organizations with Aldeburgh in Suffolk. From age three (1865) until 1909 his home, if not necessarily his residence, was at the Rectory in Great Livermere, Suffolk. This possessed also been the child years home of another eminent Suffolk antiquary, "Honest Tom" Martin (1696-1771) "of Palgrave." Many of his ghost experiences are set in Suffolk, including "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come for you, My Lad'" (Felixstowe), "A Warning to the Inquisitive" (Aldeburgh), "Rats" and "A Vignette" (Great Livermere). He lived for many years, first as an undergraduate, then as a don and provost, at King's College, Cambridge, where he was also a member of the Pitt Team. The school provides settings for a number of of his stories. Apart from medieval subjects, James analyzed the classics and came out very successfully in a staging of Aristophanes' play The Parrots, with music by Hubert Parry. His capacity as an acting professional was also visible when he read his new ghost experiences to friends at Christmas time. In Sept 1873 he appeared as a boarder at Temple Grove University, one of the leading males' preparatory universities of the day. James is most beneficial known for his ghost experiences, but his work as a medievalist scholar was prodigious and remains highly reputed in scholarly circles. Indeed, the success of his experiences was founded on his antiquarian abilities and knowledge. His discovery of any manuscript fragment resulted in excavations in the ruins of the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, Western Suffolk, in 1902, where the graves of several twelfth-century abbots referred to by Jocelyn de Brakelond (a contemporary chronicler) were rediscovered, having been lost because the Dissolution. His 1917 edition 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 had written The Apocalypse in Skill, which placed lighted Apocalypse manuscripts into individuals. He also translated the New Testament Apocrypha and added to the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903). His capacity to wear his learning casually is visible in his Suffolk and Norfolk (Dent, 1930), in which a lot of knowledge is provided in a popular and accessible form, and in Abbeys (Great Western Railway, 1925). Adam also achieved a good deal during his directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (1893-1908). He managed to secure a sizable number of important paintings and manuscripts, including notable portraits by Titian. Adam was Provost of Eton College from 1918 to 1936. He died in 1936 and was buried in Eton town cemetery.
