Robert (afterwards the Right Hon. Sir Robert) Adair (1763-1855), son of Sergeant-Surgeon Adair and Lady Caroline Keppel, described by an Austrian aristocrat as "le fils du plus grand
Seigneur d'Angleterre
," was educated at Westminster and the University of Gottingen. At the latter place Adair, always, as his kinsman Lord Albemarle said of him, "an enthusiastic admirer of the fair sex" (
Recollections
, vol. i. p. 229), fell in love with his tutor's daughter. He did not, however, marry "Sweet Matilda Pottingen," but Angélique Gabrielle, daughter of the Marquis d'Hazincourt. He is supposed to have contributed to the
Rolliad
; and the "Dedication to Sir Lloyd Kenyon," "Margaret Nicholson" (
Political Eclogues
, p. 207), and the "Song of Scrutina" (
Probationary Odes