John Placid Adelham

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John Placid Adelham was an English Protestant minister.

Adelham was born in Wiltshire. He became a Catholic and joined the Benedictines. He was professed at St. Edward's Monastery, Paris in 1652. He was Prior of St. Lawrence's Monastery, at Dieulward from 1659 to 1661, and was then sent to England and stationed at Somerset House from 1661 to 1675. Banished that year, he returned to England again and became a victim of the "Popish Plot" of Titus Oates. He was tried and condemned to death as a Catholic priest on 17 January, 1678. Though reprieved, he was detained in Newgate Prison, where he died somewhere between the years 1681 and 1685.

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.