Francis Adams

Francis William Lauderdale Adams (27 September 1862 – 4 September 1893) was a British writer of anti-capitalist views. Adams was a representative British fin de siècle figure whose time in Australia contributed to its radical nationalism of the period, socialist ideas and aesthetics.

His health failing rapidly from tuberculosis, Adams spent the winter of December 1892 to February 1893 in Alexandria. Letters are extant from this time that he wrote to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Adams worked on finishing a book attacking the British rule in Egypt. Adams shot himself dead at a boarding house in Margate, England, on 4 September 1893. He shot himself in the mouth during a severe tubercular haemorrhage; he carried a pistol for this purpose. He was survived by his second wife, Edith (née Goldstone). It was an assisted suicide but she was not charged with any crime.