Richard (George) Adams

Novelist, born in Newbury, Berkshire, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and after wartime service in the army worked as a civil servant in the Department of the Environment (1948–74). He made his name as a writer with the best-selling Watership Down (1972), an epic tale of a community of rabbits. Later books include Shardik (1974), The Plague Dogs (1977), The Iron Wolf (1980), The Bureaucrats (1985), Traveller (1988), and Tales from Watership Down (1996). His autobiography The Day Gone By appeared in 1990.

1626 – 7 February 1698), a non-conforming English Presbyterian divine, author of various sermons and other writings in divinity, was the grandson of Richard Adams, the rector of Woodchurch, in the part of Cheshire which is called the hundred of Wirral, and son of Charles Adams, who, with his brother Randal, was brought up to the church, and became the father of four Adams — Richard, Peter, Thomas, and Charles, who were all clergymen.

Adams was admitted to Brasenose College, Oxford, March 24, 1646, where he became fellow, and took his master's degree in 1651. Being unable to comply with the terms of ministerial conformity settled on the restoration of Charles II, he resigned the living, but continued to reside in London, where, when the times allowed of non-conforming services being publicly conducted, he became pastor of a small congregation of Presbyterian dissenters, whose place of worship was situated in Parish-street, in the Borough. A sermon preached on occasion of his death, by John Howe, an eminent non-conforming preacher was printed, and contains a strong testimony to his harmless, useful, and holy life.

He was the author of the exposition of the Epistles to the Philippians and Colossians in the supplement to Poole's Annotations, and of various printed sermons.

He published also two works of his brother Thomas Adams;