John took his younger brother Robert into partnership, and the two profited greatly from the lucrative Board of Ordnance contracts which were had been initiated following the Jacobite rising of 1745. Finally, John inherited his father's position as Master Mason to the Board of Ordnance in North Britain. John also became Laird of Blair Adam, the estate in Kinross-shire which his father had built up. Upon William's death in June 1748, John took over the family businesses, which besides designing and building houses, included interests in quarrying, mining and other industries. ĭuring the 1740s, William was gradually handing over control to his eldest son.
It is believed his father allowed him to do some work on Montrose Mausoleum in Aberuthven, Perthshire, in 1736, for his name is in an inscription in the northern wall. However, the family home became a hub of the Scottish Enlightenment, with numerous Edinburgh virtuosi visiting. John attended Dalkeith Grammar School, outside the city, although he did not proceed to university as he was already being involved in the family businesses. The Adam family moved to Edinburgh in 1728, as William Adam's career as a designer of country houses began to take off. His younger brothers Robert and James Adam also became architects. Architect, in the Adam mausoleum, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburghīorn in Linktown of Abbotshall, now part of Kirkcaldy, Fife, he was the eldest son of architect and entrepreneur William Adam and his wife Mary Robertson (1698–1761).
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