Men-at-the-Bar/Adams, Francis Ottiwell

by Joseph Foster

Adams, Francis Ottiwell, C.B. 1878, B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb. (classical and mathematical honours), 1848, M.A. 1851, H.B.M. envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Swiss Confederation 1881, attaché in diplomatic service Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Teheran, and Paris 1854–9, second secretary 1862, Washington 1864–6, Paris 1866–8, secretary of legation Japan 1868–72, etc., secretary of embassy at Berlin 1872, Paris 1874, first British delegate to the Postal Congress at Paris 1878, a minister plenipotentiary 1879, a student of the Inner Temple 14 April, 1847, went to Lincoln's Inn 6 Nov., 1850, where he was called to the bar 5 May, 1852 (only son of Joseph Hollingworth Adams, commissary-general in the army); born ⁠, ⁠.

British Legation, Berne.