Of Downham Market, Norfolk; he was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he acquired a reputation as a roisterer, and was afterwards a close friend of Lord Grey and Samuel Whitbread.

REFERENCES TO Thomas Adkin:

Samuel Whitbread to Thomas Creevey, 8 November 1809 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Samuel Whitbread to Thomas Creevey, 10 November 1809 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)