Family and Education
Adamson was born in Perth, the only son of John Adamson who was a chartered accountant. His father was strong Scottish patriot who was said to dislike "even the idea of living south of the border", but was persuaded by an attractive job offer to do so. Campbell Adamson was sent to Rugby School, and then went up to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read economics under John Maynard Keynes. He married Gilvray Allan, a sociologist, in 1945.
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