COMMISSIONERS THOMAS AND ELIZABETH ADAMS

Thomas Henry Adams had become an officer from Sunderland, England with his wife Elizabeth Jones. In May 1886, Staff-Captain Tom Adams was appointed district leader of the  Glasgow and South District with 19 corps.

In April 1888 Major Adams was appointed to take charge of the Scotland Territory and by the end of his time in Scotland had been promoted, becoming a colonel. There was a reason for this: he had received marching orders. His going was a sad loss for Scotland, for he had done brilliantly, living up to his reputation for irrepressibility. But Scotland’s loss was to be Canada’s gain, for Adams moved to the dominion, as the leader of the five-year-old command

Booth himself presided at the Adams’s farewell meeting on Tuesday 3 September, for which admission was by ticket, costing 1d. He did not stay long in Canada but, as a commissioner, in 1891 he requested the General to relieve him of his command because he and Mrs. Adams had both been ill. They had, in fact, also suffered ill health in Scotland. They returned to officership in 1895.