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Robert Adam (disambiguation)

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ28458196 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Adam (1728–1792) was a British designer.

Robert Adam may also refer to:

Robert Adam (architect, born 1948), a British classical architect

Robert Borthwick Adam (1833–1904), American retailer and book collector

Robert M. Adam (1885–1967), Scottish photographer and botanist

Robert Adam (died 1952), British captain of the cargo ship Rosita murdered by a gunboat on Fuzhou seaway

Rob Adam (born 1955), South African scientist

Robert Adam (fl.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Robert Adam (disambiguation)” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Robert, Adam and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1728, 1792, 1948, 1833—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Robert, Adam and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Adam (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.