Robert C. (Robert Chamblet) Adams

Born in Boston on December 1, 1839, Robert Chamblet Adams was an American writer, sailor, and lecturer. Records from McGill describe him as a sailing-ship captain who traveled around the world, and his own preface to On Board the "Rocket" says the book's incidents came from his personal experience.

His writing was notably varied. Open Library lists works including On Board the "Rocket" (1879), The History of England in Rhyme (1880), Evolution (1883), Travels in Faith: From Tradition to Reason (1884), History of the United States in Rhyme (1884), and Pioneer Pith (1889). Taken together, they show an author interested in both storytelling and big public questions, especially history, belief, and rationalism.

He was also active in freethought circles in Montreal, where archival records identify him as president of the Pioneer Free Thought Club and the Canadian Secular Union. A few online sources disagree about the year of his death, so it is safest to say that he lived in the 19th century and left behind a body of work shaped by adventure, debate, and a plainspoken wish to reach general readers.