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Biographical Information: DOUGLAS WALLACE ADAM (DOUG), born 31st January 1943 at Galashiels Hospital, Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland. Chartered Accountant with Touche & Co, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Price Waterhouse, Nassau, Bahamas, Finance Director with R. P. Adam Ltd, Selkirk, Selkirkshire (1971-78), working (1978-c.1994) in paint manufacture as U.K. Managing Director of Aquarius Coatings Ltd, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, a subsidiary of Aquarius Coatings Inc., Toronto, Ontario, and (2010) operating as D. Adam & Associates and ACTEL Coatings, specialising in developing and manufacturing surface protection coatings for the exterior of buildings, bridges and offshore oil and gas platforms. Living (1994) at Cambusbarron, near Stirling, and (2010) in Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Married (1st October 1966 in Palmertson Place Church, Edinburgh) Krystyna McKendrick Proudfoot (Krysia) (born 7th June 1944), Director of and working in her daughter's recruitment consultancy firm in Edinburgh (2010) and living (2010) with her daughter in Edinburgh, daughter of Zbigniew Juliusz Czolowski (born 1919, died 1977), Captain Polish Armed Forces, and Helen McKendrick Proudfoot (born 27th October 1919, died 26th June 1975) of Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, professional tennis coach, who was Scottish Ladies Tennis Champion for several years and who competed at Wimbledon in the 1950s, and was divorced (September 2006), having two children:-