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Adair, Dr James M'Kittrick (1765 — 1802)
The son of an Ayr doctor, related to Mrs Dunlop. James Adair studied in Geneva and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated in medicine. The Reverend Dr George Lawrie, minister of Loudon, introduced him to Burns, and he accompanied the poet on his tour to Harvieston in October 1787. He married Charlotte Hamilton, half-sister of Gavin Hamilton, on 11th November 1789. Adair practiced in the Pleasance, Edinburgh, then moved to Harrogate, where he died. After Burns's death, Adair provided Currie with an account of this tour, on which Burns himself kept no journal. Though inaccurate in some of its dates, Adair's account has been generally accepted as being 'substantially correct in other respects', to quote Snyder.
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