Author: Adye, James
Biography:
ADYE, James Pattison (1783-1831: ODNB)
He was the fourth son of Major Stephen Payne Adye of the Royal Artillery and his wife Elizabeth Hitchcock. His father served as aide-de-camp for General Pattison in New York during the American War of Independence, and James Adye was born in New York. He became a cadet in the Royal Artillery in 1797, lieutenant in Aug. 1799, captain in 1814, and brevet major in 1819. He served at Copenhagen in 1806 and also in the Mediterranean. On 16 June 1817 he married Jane Mortimer Kelson in Sevenoaks, Kent; they had three sons. He died at Naples on 26 Oct. 1831. (ancestry.co.uk 26 Apr. 2022; ODNB [for Stephen Payne Adye] 26 Apr. 2022; J. H. Lefroy, Official Catalogue of the Museum of Artillery [1864]; Sir John Adye, Recollections of a Military Life [1895]) SR