Adam smith biography summary organizer

Adam Smith was a Scottish Economist most known for his work “The Wealth of Nations”.

When and Where was he Born?

5th June 1723, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

Family Background:

Adam Smith’s father, who was a Customs Officer, died before his birth.

Education:

Local Burgh school.

Glasgow University. Balliol College, Oxford.

Timeline of Adam Smith

1748: Under the patronage of Lord Kames he delivers public lectures in Edinburgh on Rhetoric, belles lettres and moral philosophy.

1750: He meets the philosopher David Hume who was to become one of his closest friends.

1751: He is appointed Professor of Logic at Glasgow University.

1755: Smith is appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University.

1759:He publishes his “Theory of Moral sentiments”, based around sympathy for other people’s predicaments.

1764: Smith resigns his professorships to become the tutor to the Duke of Bu