Robert Emile Adair was an Irish cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.

He first played for Ireland

Irish cricket team

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 against I Zingari

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 in August 1899, and next played in Ireland's first four first-class

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 matches in 1902, his last coming against Cambridge University

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. He later played for a Scottish Counties team against Yorkshire

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 in 1910 in a match that was abandoned after one day due to the death of King Edward VII

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