Colin Forbes Adam
Colin Gurden Forbes Adam CSI DL (18 December 1889 – 12 November 1982) was a British civil servant in the Indian Imperial Civil Service.
Adam was the youngest son of Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Baronet.
His older brothers were General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet GCB DSO OBE and Eric Forbes Adam CMG.
He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.
During the First World War he served as an officer with the Indian Expeditionary Force to Mesopotamia and Palestine.
In 1920 Adam married The Hon.
Irene Constance Lawley, only child of Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock; they had three sons and a daughter:
Adam was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1924.
In 1948 Adam published "Life of Lord Lloyd", a biography of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd.
Adam was a Deputy Lieutenant of Kingston-upon-Hull from 1958–1966.
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Colin Forbes (graphic designer)
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Forbes played the last five seasons of his professional career in Europe with the Adler Mannheim and lastly ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga( DEL).
Frank Forbes Adam
Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Baronet (17 June 1846 – 22 December 1926) was a British banker who made his fortune in British India.
He was President of the Bank of Bombay.
He was educated at Loretto School.
He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1888, and (Knight Bachelor) in 1890.
Appointed a deputy lieutenant of Lancashire on 26 April 1904, Forbes was created Baronet of Hankelow Court, Chester in 1917 and appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1919.
He married Rose Frances, daughter of Charles Gordon Kemball, a judge of the High Court of Bombay.
They had three sons and a daughter:
Eric Forbes Adam
Eric Graham Forbes Adam( 3 October 1888 – 7 July 1925) was a British diplomat and First Secretary to the Foreign Office.
Adam was born in Malabar Hill, Bombay, India, the second son of Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Baronet.
His older brother was General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet.
He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.
While at Cambridge, Adam played one first- class cricket match for Cambridge University against Yorkshire on 1–3 June 1911 at Fenner's.
He batted at number 6 in Cambridge's first innings, scoring 10 before being caught by Arthur Dolphin off the bowling of Wilfred Rhodes.
During Yorkshire's first innings he gained some measure of revenge on Rhodes by catching him for 1 off the bowling of John Frederick Ireland – the only catch of his first- class career.
In Cambridge's second innings he opened the batting with David Collins, scoring 17 before being bowled by Alonzo Drake.
Cambridge won the match by 69 runs.
Adam married Agatha Perrin, daughter of R.W. Macan in 1918; their son was Sir Christopher Adam, 3rd Baronet( 1920 –2009).
Adam served as 3rd Secretary in the British Peace Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; the London Conference of 1920 and the San Remo Conference.
He was First Secretary in the British Delegation to the Lausanne Conference of 1922 – 1923.
Adam was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1923.
Adam died in Istanbul in 1925, aged 36, and is buried in Haydarpaşa Cemetery in Istanbul.
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Raymond Harold Sawkins
Raymond Harold Sawkins( 14 July 1923 – 23 August 2006) was a British novelist, who mainly published under the pseudonym Colin Forbes, but also as Richard Raine, Jay Bernard and Harold English.
He published only three of his first books under his own name.
Sawkins wrote over 40 books, mostly as Colin Forbes.
He was most famous for his long- running series of thriller novels in which the principal character is Tweed, Deputy Director of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Question: Where did Colin Forbes Adam's father study?
Answer: Loretto School